Liverpool star Mohamed Salah hopes to add the African Player of the Year award to Ghana on Thursday to his burgeoning collection of individual honors.
The Egyptian, who scored 23 goals in all competitions in the middle of his first season at Anfield, was voted BBC African Footballer of the Year and Arab Player of the Year.
Salah, Liverpool team-mate Sadio Mane of Senegal and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Borussia Dortmund and Gabon are the contenders for the highest African individual football honour.
The scoring feats of Salah have installed him as the public and media favourite to succeed Algerian Riyad Mahrez of Leicester City as the number one African footballer.
“I want to be the best Egyptian footballer ever,” said Salah after receiving the BBC award last month.“When I came to Liverpool I hoped to show everyone my abilities. I scored a lot of goals with Roma and am very happy being successful at Liverpool.”
Salah also starred for Egypt, scoring five of the goals that qualified his country for the 2018 World Cup in Russia after a 28-year absence from the global showpiece.
Mane will also be in Russia next June, adding abundant creativity to a physically formidable Senegal side.
Gabon did not qualify and Aubameyang shunned several World Cup call-ups, a fact that could count against him.
Salah and Mane will leave Accra soon after the awards ceremony as Liverpool have a Friday night FA Cup third-round derby date with Everton.#Africa ... spill TEA.... Easy on Shade #jaiyeorie
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