Salah playing for Fiorentina in 2015
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mohamed Salah Ghaly | ||
Date of birth | 15 June 1992 | ||
Place of birth | Basyoun, El Gharbia, Egypt | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Playing position | Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Roma | ||
Number | 11 | ||
Youth career | |||
2006–2010 | El Mokawloon | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010–2012 | El Mokawloon | 36 | (11) |
2012–2014 | Basel | 47 | (9) |
2014–2016 | Chelsea | 13 | (2) |
2015 | → Fiorentina (loan) | 16 | (6) |
2015–2016 | → Roma (loan) | 34 | (14) |
2016– | Roma | 18 | (9) |
National team‡ | |||
2010–2011 | Egypt U20 | 11 | (3) |
2011–2012 | Egypt U23 | 11 | (4) |
2011– | Egypt | 53 | (29) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 February 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 5 February 2017 |
Mohamed Salah Ghaly (Arabic: محمد صلاح غالي; born 15 June 1992) is an Egyptian professional footballer, who plays for Italian club Roma and the Egypt national team as a winger.
As well as representing the Egyptian national team since 2011, he also participated in the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup and the 2012 Summer Olympics. He won the Swiss Super League in his first season with Basel, and was awarded the CAF Most Promising African Talent of the Year in 2012. In 2013, he was awarded the SAFP Golden Player award for being the best player in the Swiss Super League.
Salah played his youth football with El Mokawloon. He played his debut in their senior team in the Egyptian Premier League being substituted in on 3 May 2010 in the 1–1 away draw against El Mansoura. During the 2010–11 season Salah advanced and became a regular in the team. He scored his first goal for them on 25 December 2010 during the 1–1 away draw against El Ahly. He remained a regular for El Mokawloon, appearing in every game of the 2011–12 season. However, following the Port Said Stadium disaster, early February 2012, the Egyptian Premier League stopped and all subsequent matches were postponed. On 10 March 2012, the Egyptian Football Association announced their decision to cancel the remainder of the season.