Myths of Egypt … a step that separates Salah from a historic achievement

Egyptian international Mohamed Salah, star of Liverpool and the Egyptian national team, seeks a personal achievement against Togo in the African Nations Qualifiers, where a goal separates him from occupying the all-time record of the team’s top scorers list throughout the history.

The team will host their Togolese counterpart tomorrow Saturday at the Cairo Stadium on the third day of the qualifying rounds, before the confrontation between them resumed three days later at the Kéji Stadium in Lomé, capital of Togo, on the 17th. month.

The Egyptian team, which holds the record for African nations won with seven titles, is seeking its first victory in the group after drawing with Kenya and Comoros in the first two rounds, to finish third in the Group G standings.

Salah currently ranks third on Egypt’s list of top scorers throughout history with 41 goals, one goal behind Hassan El Shazly (42 goals), on the throne list of Hossam Hassan, the keeper of the record with 69 goals.

List of top scorers of Egyptian teams throughout history (excluding goals from uncounted international matches):

1- Hossam Hassan – 69 goals.

2- Hassan Al-Shazly – 42 goals.

3- Mohamed Salah – 41 goals *.

4- Muhammad Abu Trika – 38 goals.

Since Mohamed Salah joined the Egyptian team nine years ago, specifically on September 3, 2011, the 28-year-old has played 67 international matches, before opening his scoring record against Niger in the 2012 African Cup of Nations qualifiers. , which ended (3-0).

Salah is the Egyptian national team’s historical scorer in the qualifying rounds for the African nations with 14 goals, and he hopes to consolidate his record during the current stage and continue to move away from his closest stalker, Hossam Hassan, the historical Egyptian football striker.

Hossam Hassan scored 12 goals in the African Nations Qualifiers during the 25 games he played between 1986 and 2006, while Salah needed 19 games to score 14 goals so far.

List of Egyptian top scorers in the African Nations Qualifiers:

1- Mohamed Salah – 14 goals *.

2- Hossam Hassan – 12 goals.

3- Ahmed Al-Kass – 9 goals.

4- Ahmed Hassan – 7 goals.

And Mohamed Salah scored two goals against Congo and Uganda at the 2019 African Cup of Nations hosted by Egypt last year, before the Pharaohs deposited the competition at home from the round of 16 for South Africa, losing an clean goal.

Salah joined the current camp of the Egyptian national team for the first time since the end of the Pharaohs’ run in the 2019 African Nations, as it prevented him from competing against Egypt against Kenya and Comoros in the first and second rounds of the qualifiers, whose results ended in a tie.

The Liverpool star is expected to play for the first time under the leadership of Hossam El-Badry, the coach of the Egyptian team, who took over the task last September, succeeding Javier Aguirre, who was dismissed from training by the Pharaohs. after the failure of the African nations.

Details of Salah’s goals with the Egyptian team:

14 goals in the playoffs from 19 African nations.

10 goals in 23 friendlies.

11 goals in 13 World Cup qualifiers.

4 goals in 10 Africa Cup of Nations games.

Two goals in two games of the 2018 World Cup.