Reda Saleem (Dubai)
Talk has increased recently about the best player in Africa for 2022, after “CAF” announced the return of the awards after a two-year hiatus. “Mohamed Salah, the Liverpool player, ranked first, in the list as the best player in Africa, in the report published by the British magazine “FourFourTwo” for the best 10 players in the brown continent for 2022, surpassing his former colleague, Senegalese Sadio Mane, who moved to Bayern Munich.
Salah scored 31 goals with Liverpool in various competitions during the ending season, while his colleague Mane scored 23 goals, and the Egyptian pharaoh won the award for the best player in Africa twice 2017 and 2018, while the “Teranga Lions” star won it 2019.
Algerian Riyad Mahrez came fourth after winning the English Premier League title for the second time in a row, the third with Manchester City, and the fourth in his personal history. He finished the season as the Citizens’ top scorer in all tournaments with 24 goals, while he was preceded by Senegalese Kalidou Koulibaly of Naples.
Moroccan star Achraf Hakimi came fifth, despite being a defender, but he has high attacking capabilities, scoring 4 goals and providing 6 assists in 41 matches in all competitions with Paris Saint-Germain to be crowned in the French League.
According to the British magazine, Senegal’s Edward Mendy, Chelsea goalkeeper, comes in sixth, Ivorian Frank Kessie of Milan is seventh, his compatriot Sebastian Haller of Ajax Amsterdam comes in eighth, and Nigeria’s Victor Osimhen of Naples is ninth, and Ivorian Wilfrid Zaha of Crystal Palace is tenth.
The Confederation of African Football “CAF” had announced the return of the best awards in Africa after a two-year absence due to the Corona virus crisis, and the award ceremony will be held in Morocco next July 21, and a number of distinguished players in European leagues are competing for the title of best.
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