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Mo Salah<\/strong><\/p>\n Liverpool forward, Mohamed Salah, has said he was \u201cshocked\u201d after finishing in seventh place in the 2021 Ballon D\u2019Or ranking.<\/p>\n Despite enjoying a stellar year with club and country, Salah missed out on the top three, with Lionel Messi winning the prize for a record seventh time ahead of Bayern Munich\u2019s Robert Lewandowski and Chelsea\u2019s Jorginho.<\/p>\n The Egypt international said he wants to emulate George Weah and become the second African footballer to win the prize.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to win it to join George Weah, the only African [in 1995],\u201d Salah told L\u2019Equipe via France Football. \u201cIt\u2019s true that I was shocked by my ranking in 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cFor this year, the defeat against Real Madrid is a disadvantage, even if I played a good game in the final. But it doesn\u2019t cancel out everything I\u2019ve achieved for months.<\/p>\n \u201cLet\u2019s wait for the vote. And if I\u2019m not Ballon d\u2019Or in 2022, I\u2019ll do everything I can to be the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n Salah has picked up a number of individual honours following another impressive campaign at Anfield after scoring 31 goals in all competitions last season, helping Liverpool win the FA Cup and Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n He won the prestigious Football Writers\u2019 Association Footballer of the Year award and was named Professional Footballers\u2019 Association (PFA) Player of the Year for a second time.<\/p>\n However, Liverpool ended the season with a disappointing 1-0 loss to Spanish champions Madrid in the Champions League final, but Salah said they deserved to win the game.<\/p>\n \u201cWe deserved to win, we had more chances,\u201d he added. \u201cI had two or three clear chances but Thibaut Courtois made incredible saves.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s his job, that\u2019s what Real Madrid signed him for. It was his night.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Mo Salah Liverpool forward, Mohamed Salah, has said he was \u201cshocked\u201d after finishing in seventh place in the 2021 Ballon D\u2019Or ranking. Despite enjoying a stellar year with club and country, Salah missed out on the top three, with Lionel Messi winning the prize for a record seventh time ahead of Bayern Munich\u2019s Robert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1121407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[9215,9216,11625,4157,9443],"class_list":["post-1121405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ballon","tag-dor","tag-ranking","tag-salah","tag-shocked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}