Mohamed Salah, Liverpool forward, has been named the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) ‘Player of the Year’ for the recently concluded 2021/22 English Premier League (EPL) season.
The Egyptian striker was announced the Players’ ‘Player of the Year’ winner on Thursday, gathering more votes than Kevin de Bruyne, Cristiano Ronaldo, Harry Kane, and the duo of Virgil van Dijk and Sadio Mané, his Liverpool teammates.
Salah, the Egyptian striker, also becomes the sixth male player to win the PFA award twice, joining the legendary list that includes Mark Hughes, Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry, Gareth Bale, and Kevin de Bruyne.
Salah, who also won the award in 2018, expressed his excitement at being recognized by his fellow professionals.
“It’s a great honour to win a trophy,” the 29-year-old said.
“Individual or collective and this one is big so, very happy and very proud of that. This one is a really good one to win, especially because it’s voted by players.
“It shows you that you’ve worked really hard and you get what you worked for. I have my room with trophies in a cabinet and I made sure that I had another space for one more. I always keep space and just try to imagine that the trophies are going to come.”
In a season Liverpool failed to claim the EPL title on the final day of the season, Salah scored 23 goals to finish the season as joint EPL top goal scorer and also added 14 assists.
PFA Premier League Team of the Year
• Alisson Becker – Liverpool
• Trent Alexander-Arnold – Liverpool
• Virgil van Dijk – Liverpool
• Antonio Rüdiger – Chelsea
• João Cancelo – Manchester City
• Kevin De Bruyne – Manchester City
• Thiago Alcântara – Liverpool
• Bernardo Silva – Manchester City
• Sadio Mané – Liverpool
• Cristiano Ronaldo – Manchester United
• Mohamed Salah – Liverpool
