Liverpool and Egypt star Mohamed Salah has been named the African Player of the Year for 2017.
The 25-year-old attacker beat out Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund/Gabon) and club teammate Sadio Mane (Senegal) for the honor.
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He’s the second-straight Premier League player to win the honor after Riyad Mahrez of Leicester City. Aubameyang won the award in 2015, breaking Yaya Toure’s four-peat.
Salah has 23 goals and eight assists in 29 matches for Liverpool since arriving from AS Roma this summer (he scored 10 goals and added nine assists between January and the end of i Lupi’s season).
He also scored the World Cup clinching goal for Egypt in World Cup qualifying.
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