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Liverpool’s Salah Wins 2018 BBC African Footballer Of The Year Award

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Mohamed Salah has won the 2018 BBC African Footballer of the Year award for the second time.

The Liverpool star won the award in 2017.

Salah beat his club teammate Sadio Mane; Napoli star, Kalidou Koulibaly; Juventus’ Medhi Benatia, and Atletico Madrid midfielder Thomas Partey to clinch the award.

He is now the third Egyptian player to have won the award as well as the first from his country to win it back to back.

Mohamed Barakat won it in 2005 with Mohamed Aboutrika claiming the crown in 2018.

El Hadji Diouf, who is a former Liverpool player won it once in 2002 with Nwankwo Kanu, Jay-Jay Okocha and Yaya Toure also winning the award in previous years.

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