Two goals in two rounds still can't change the fact that Egypt is at the bottom of the group.
Mohammed Salah, one of the most watched superstars of this World Cup, ended his first World Cup trip in regret.
Before the World Cup, Salah, known as the "Pharaoh of Egypt", was red and purple, and many people said that he was the third person in the world after "Mero". He has breathtaking sprint speed, amazing dribbling ability, strong breakthrough power, Messi-like change of direction to get rid of the technology, excellent shooting skills, unique sense of smell in front of the goal.
And Salah's football career is also a counter-attack story.
Salah was born on June 15, 1992, in a small village called Nagrig in Basyoun, Gabia Province, Egypt.
When he was about seven or eight years old, he began to like football. At that time, Salah Jr. often watched Champions League matches, and the top stars on the pitch seemed to him as if they had magic. When playing with friends on the street, he always tries to imitate Brazilian star Ronaldo, French legend Zidane and Italian star Totti.
Salah's friends are also very fond of football, so he will also play with them, some children are much older than Salah, salah also practiced a very delicate foot technique. Salah's best brother at the time and one of his friends, said to Salah one day, "One day you're going to be a big star." "I didn't expect it in a word.
At the age of 14, Salah signed his first player contract with Egypt's Arab Architecture Club, but it was a tough time for him.
Initially, Salah only had to practice and play at a club 30 minutes' drive from his residence, and it didn't take long for the training site to move to a 90-minute drive from him. Slowly, Salah's training ground moved farther and farther away, and he participated in a regular training session that required a long journey of up to 4 and a half hours, that is, Salah spent 9 hours a day on the road. Going to school, rushing, training, going home, eating and sleeping... Become his daily routine, repeating it over and over again. But the boring journey has never shaken the dream and determination of this teenager.
"It was a tough time, but I was very young and I really wanted to be a player. I want to be a star. I want to be a special person. Salah once said as he recalled this time, "At that time, I was just a 14-year-old who was obscure but had dreams." I don't know what's going to happen next, I'm just desperate to be able to realize my dreams. ”
In a sense, these honings as a child have also made Salah's tenacious and indomitable character today.
This training continued until the age of 18, when Salah had his first chance to play for the first team.
Since then, Salah has truly started his career.
At first, Salah's position on the field was left-back, but after coach Seyed Sisshni's point, Salah's position on the pitch was pre-empted, which also changed his football path dramatically.
The Daily Mirror reported a very interesting little detail, Salah had won five excellent chances to single out his opponents on the left side of the promenade when he was playing with the team in cairo's local u16 league, and he screwed them all up. After losing such a great opportunity, Salah cried on the sidelines, and in the face of such a scene, Hisshni approached Salah and pulled out 25 Egyptian pounds to show comfort. He also told Salah that he would change to striker in the future, and predicted that he would become the top scorer in both the u16 and u17 matches. It didn't take long for Salah to repay the coach's cultivation with 37 goals.
In May 2010, Salah made his Egyptian Premier League debut and scored his first Ethiopian Premier League goal in December of the same year. Due to the riots in Port Said that killed many people on February 1, 2012, which led to the suspension of the Ethiopian Super League, Salah began to seek a transfer.
In March 2012, Salah joined the Premier League and helped Basel win the Premier League title, and then helped Basel reach the europa League final four.
In 2013, Salah helped Basel to a double-match in the Champions League group stage, where he was picked up by Chelsea for his excellent performances and quickly completed the transfer, becoming the first Egyptian player in chelsea club history.
Originally thought that landing in the Premier League would be an important turning point in his life, but due to the distrust of manager Jose Mourinho at the time, he only made 19 appearances for Chelsea, scored 2 goals and became a deserter. After that, Salah moved to Serie A for Fiorentina and Roma, and finally returned to the Premier League in June 2017 to join Liverpool.
Salah's transfer value at the time was 42 million euros, and the deal proved to be an extraordinary value.
In January 2018, Salah was elected African Footballer of the Year 2017. In the 2017-18 season, Salah scored 32 goals in the Premier League, breaking the Premier League single-season goal record, winning the Premier League Golden Boot while winning the three players of the season by PFA, FWA and the premier league official, and helping Liverpool win the Champions League runner-up.
Salah was elected African Footballer of the Year
After Salah won the Premier League's PFA Best Player Award, the British media "Daily Mirror" boldly proposed that Salah's next goal will be to challenge Messi and Ronaldo, break their 10-year monopoly, and move towards the honor of the Golden Globe Awards.
In the national team, Salah also quickly grew into the core of the Egyptian team. In the World Cup qualifiers in Russia, Salah directly produced 7 goals, scored 5 goals, assisted 2 goals, which is also egypt's all goals in the World Cup, so Egypt has reached the World Cup finals again in 28 years since 1990.
However, Salah was in a state of recovery for a long time due to a shoulder injury in the Champions League, and even until the opening match of the World Cup group stage, Salah watched from the bench as Uruguayan defender Jimenez's header killed his team.
In the second game of the group stage, Salah finally made a comeback, but facing the host Russia, who was in full swing, although he played the whole game and scored a penalty at the end of the game, it could not change the fate of Egypt's 1-3 sweep.
In the second game of the group stage, Salah scored one goal in advance, but unfortunately Saudi Arabia ended the game 2:1, two goals in two games, and all the goals of Egypt in the World Cup in Russia, a brave Salah could not hide the gap in Egypt's overall strength, and they could only leave Russia with a three-game losing streak.
In his emotional life, Salah is a very nostalgic person.
While in school, Salah met a girl named Maggie, who was quickly attracted to this beautiful and kind girl.
On December 17, 2013, the two were officially married in Salah's hometown of Nagrig.
On the wedding day, Salah wore a handsome tuxedo, while Maggie wore a traditional wedding dress, looking pure and unpretentious. It is said that Salah invited everyone in the village to the wedding, and thousands of people ended up present, including Egyptian singer Hamada Hilal and others.
According to the information on Maggie's social media account, it is known that she is a biotechnologist, which is significantly different from our general perception that the members of the wife group are often models, singers or celebrities.
Salah and Maggie have a deep affection for their hometown of Nagrig, and the well-meaning couple has invested heavily in philanthropy, building schools, hospitals and stadiums out of their own pockets, as well as purchasing equipment, medicines and ambulances. Even the prize money Salah received by winning Egypt in the World Cup was donated to the local people to improve their lives.
In 2014, Salah, who was still playing for Chelsea, became a father, and Maggie gave birth to a daughter for him at Westminster Hospital in London. Since then, Salah, who has 13.7 million followers on social media, has become a shaiva demon, and you can feel the sweetness of this family's life.
Although Salah left this World Cup early, but scored 2 goals in 2 games, such a performance is very outstanding, there are many fans on the Internet expressed their heartache Salah, only hope that he can have a good rest, and then fight again next season with a healthy body, hoping to see him again in the World Cup stadium in four years.
(Photo from: Xinhua News Agency, China News Network, People's Network, Sina Sports, Tencent Sports, etc.)