Mo Salah: Football is Life
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Liverpool and Egypt footballer Mo Salah became a phenomenon last season; breaking records and winning almost every award going in the English Premier League. In his adopted city of Liverpool, football fans of different faith, nationality and club allegiance describe how Salah has broken down the boundaries that divide them. Reporter Nick Garnett travels from the back-streets surrounding Liverpool’s stadium at Anfield to the Pyramids of Egypt to uncover how Salah’s exploits off the pitch may even eclipse his achievements on it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, excuse me, just before this podcast begins, I want to tell you about another one. |
| 0:05.7 | Kalki presents My Indian Life. I'm the first bit of that, Kalki Kekla. I'm a |
| 0:11.0 | Bollywood actor and now a podcast presenter too. My Indian life is about being |
| 0:16.2 | young and Indian in the 21st century. Every episode tells a story about real life in |
| 0:20.8 | India, sometimes pretty raw, sometimes really uplifting. I won't be |
| 0:25.5 | shying away from tackling difficult topics. Search for my Indian life wherever you found |
| 0:30.4 | this podcast. I'm Nick Garnett. This is Mosala. |
| 0:37.0 | Football is life. on the on the |
| 0:44.0 | on the |
| 0:45.0 | what is now |
| 0:46.0 | what is now the way |
| 0:49.0 | because of Salah |
| 0:51.0 | Egypt is on the map |
| 0:52.0 | so he helped put Egypt on the map of world football. |
| 0:54.4 | Mous Salahh, he gave us hope. |
| 0:56.2 | You can achieve your dream. |
| 0:57.2 | He is a role model. |
| 0:58.2 | You can be whatever you like to be successful. |
| 1:00.7 | He's not born like a star, okay? He worked to be a star. I love him with all my heart and I want my son to grow like him. Welcome to where I grew up in Liverpool. |
| 1:17.0 | Over there there's a hairdresser, a bank and down the road a fire station and they're all quite famous because this is Penny Lane. |
| 1:24.9 | Over there is St Barnabas Church where Paul McCartney and I were in the choir. Just a shame it wasn't at the same time. |
| 1:34.0 | Straight up Church Road now and a few hundred meters on the left is my old high school, the |
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