Salah's accomplishments are unmatched in many respects. He's won both the Premier League and the Champions League, and he's an African footballer of two years who plays in two different worlds. The first is that he is from a continent that includes the Middle East. The other is Europe, where he has smashed numerous scoring records at Liverpool, making him the world's most recognisable Muslim player. And yet, not much is known about the Liverpool forward or the opposing forces surrounding him, despite his record-breaking play, team victories, and constant success on the pitch. That is, up until this point.
Award-winning football writer and journalist Simon Hughes skilfully puts together an intriguing portrayal of this mysterious football legend. Everything about Salah is revealed in Chasing Salah, including his motivations, relationships with his teammates, and the effects of the past ten years' events in Egypt on his life and future professional plans.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Simon Hughes is a Merseyside based senior writer with the Athletic, whom he joined from the Independent upon its launch in the United Kingdom in 2019. In 2022, he won the North West football journalist of the year award. He is the author of seven books about Liverpool FC as well as There She Goes, a modern social history of Liverpool as a city. In 2014, Red Machine won the Antonio Ghirelli Prize for Italian Soccer Foreign Book of the Year.
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Publisher: Constable
Published: November 7, 2024
Price: £25.00
ISBN-10: 1408721155
ISBN-13: 978-1408721155
Hardback: 368 pages
Dimensions: 156 x 240 mm
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