The story behind Mohamed Salah’s bitter dispute with the Egyptian FA

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🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Mohamed Salah could be crowned the UEFA Player of the Year at this evening’s Champions League group-stage draw.Should Salah see off Luka Modric and holder Cristiano Ronaldo to claim the crown, it would continue the Liverpool superstar's remarkable ascent.However, in the build up to the ceremony in Monaco, Salah has been embroiled in a war of words with the Egyptian FA.The dispute goes back further than this week – to before, and particularly during, this summer’s World Cup in Russia.After Egypt crashed out of the competition in ignominious fashion, we spoke to Ahmad Yousef for a special podcast to get the lowdown on a dispute that continues to rage on.Ahmad is an Egyptian football expert, and the editor at KingFut.com, who has followed the story closely, and in the podcast he tells a tale of bad luck, politics, poor planning, poor organisation and poor management.And from listening to it, it becomes clear that Salah was let down by the powers that be, and you cannot help but feel desperately disappointed for him.The podcast was published exclusively on the LFC ECHO app on June 1, 2018, but you can now listen to it here, too. It remains an insightful listen and goes some way to explaining Salah’s continuing unhappiness with the people that run the Egyptian game. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Liverpool Echo podcast on Anfield Plus, the home of your daily
0:05.4	podcast bringing you the inside track from Liverpool FC.
0:08.8	Hello and welcome to an Anfield Plus podcast on the LFC Echo app. My name is Paul Relock and by now the World Cup knockout
0:15.8	stages are in full swing. They do not however feature Mosilize Egypt. Now Egypt
0:21.6	were always going to be up against it from the moment the Liverpool
0:24.3	here I was injured in the Champions League final but after somehow managing to get himself
0:28.9	this to play and scoring Russia it's become clear that Salah was badly let down by the powers that be.
0:35.1	To get the inside track on a story of politics, poor planning and poor management, I spoke to
0:40.0	Egyptian football experts, Ahmad Youseth, and he explained how Sala's World Cup dream turned into a nightmare.
0:46.4	It's not a story to be enjoyed, but it's a fascinating one nevertheless,
0:50.3	and it's one that will leave Mo no doubt desperate to return to
0:53.7	Liverpool and attempt to build on his incredible first season at Anfield.
0:57.6	An Anfield Plus podcast from the Liverpool Echo.
1:01.6	Well Ahmed thank you very much for joining me on this from the Liverpool Echo.
1:06.0	Well Ahmed, thank you very much for joining me on this podcast. And thanks for getting back to me so quickly because you've got back into England this morning, didn't you,
1:10.0	after seven flights home?
1:12.0	Yeah, well, it's seven flights around Russia and it's been it's been a long long
1:16.3	but it's been very very fun even though we kind of were going home with zero points it was worth it.
1:23.0	Yeah, but to the football itself and obviously Mo Salar, which is who is the reason behind this
1:28.4	podcast, it was the first World Cup in 28 years.
1:31.8	Would it be fair to say it was a disappointing one? What happened football? first and
1:35.0	first, I think it was a disappointing one what happened football wise first and foremost.
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