Egypt's Mo Salah 'strong candidate' for Ballon d'Or – Asamoah Gyan
As his fairytale season continues in the English Premier
League and the Champions League, talk of Liverpool’s Mo Salah contending
for the top prize in European football continues to gain currency.
The latest to agree that Salah is getting inching towards Ballon d’Or recognition is Ghana’s skipper, Asamoah Gyan.
Gyan, Ghana’s top scorer in the national team shirt, described Salah
as a ‘strong candidate’ for the top award currently held by Portugal
and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo.
Gyan’s comment was in response to a tweet by top Ghanaian journalist
Juliet Bawuah, who had tweeted “Can we start talking about Ballon d’Or?
#Salah on a roll this year.”
Can we start talking about Ballon d'Or? #Salah on a roll this year.— Juliet Bawuah (@julietbawuah) April 24, 2018
Her tweet came after Salah’s second goal against his former side AS Roma in the semi-finals of the UEFA
Champions League game at Anfield. Liverpool hit five goals before Roma
pulled two back late in the game. Senegalese skipper Sadio Mane also
scored from a Salah assist.
With Gyan’s ‘strong candidate’ tweet response, Juliet quoted his
tweet and added ‘Gyan is impressed.’ The Ghanaian skipper also stressed
later that Salah will most definitely be part of the top 3 contenders
for the Ballon d’Or when next it is awarded.
Top 3. Guaranteed 🔥🔥— ASAMOAH GYAN (@ASAMOAH_GYAN3) April 24, 2018
Gyan also agreed with another tweet that if Salah is able to inspire
the national side to excel at the World Cup later this year in Russia,
then he surely did deserve the accolade. The last time an African
player won the award was back in the nineties when George Weah, then
with AC Milan, won the award.
In the past few years, it has been a straight fight between Ronaldo
and Barcelona’s Argentine forward Lionel Messi. They have won it for
most of the last decade.
Source: Africanews
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