Salah Shocked By Ballon d'Or Position Last Season, Wants to Join George Weah as African Winners of the Award

• Liverpool star Mohamed Salah has expressed shock at his position on the Ballon d'Or list last season
• The Egypt forward was not convinced by his seventh place position in the ranking last season for the award which was won by Lionel Messi
• The English Premier League top scorer is hoping to become the second player from Africa to win the coveted football prize

Liverpool and Egypt star, Mohamed Salah, has ambitions of becoming the second African to win the Ballon d'Or award.

The English Premier League top scorer is one of the favourites for the award following another fine campaign with the Reds.

Salah in an interview with L'Equipe expressed shock at his seventh place finish last season but hopes to make amends in 2022.

“I want to win it to join George Weah, the only African," he said.

“It's true that I was shocked by my ranking in 2021. For this year, the [Champions League] defeat against Real Madrid is a disadvantage, even if I played a good game in the final.

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“But it doesn't cancel out everything I've achieved for months. Let's wait for the vote. And if I'm not Ballon d'Or winner in 2022, I'll do everything I can to be the next one.”

Mohamed Salah won the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup in the just ended season, but will face stern competition from UEFA Champions League winner Karim Benzema for the award.

The Frenchman was key to Los Blancos success this season, and finished the European season as top scorer in the UEFA Champions League.

Liverpool teammate, Sadio Mane, who won the Africa Cup of Nations early this year is also in line for the top gong.

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The 29-year-old attacker won a raft of personal accolades and played a pivotal in Liverpool's double-winning side in the just-concluded season.

Salah played a whopping 51 games in the 2021-22 campaign, 35 games in the Premier League, 13 in the Champions League, two in the FA Cup and one in the Carabao Cup to underline his high level of fitness.