Liverpool star Mohamed Salah has been named the African Player of the Year for the second time in a row.
Salah beat his two other competitors, Sadio Mane, and Arsenal’s firebrand Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to clinch the Confederation of African Football prize.
Salah has played a key role in helping his national soccer team qualify for the African Cup of Nations that they will play host in June 2019.
He has scored four times in the three games he has played for the national team.
The 26-year old has scored 16 goals for Liverpool this season positioning the club on top of the English Premier League table.
Last season Salah netted 44 times for Liverpool enabling the club to finish fourth on the Premier League and reach Champions League finals that they lost to defending champions Real Madrid.
African Player of the Year Award is voted for by CAF’s national teams’ head coaches, and technical directors, members of the governing body’s technical and development committee and a panel of journalists. (ES Sport).
Receiving the honor in Dakar, Senegal on Tuesday night, the Egypt international was also named in the Africa Best XI for 2018 alongside his team-mates Sadio Mane and Naby Keita.
Others named included Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Riyad Mahrez, Serge Aurier, and Erick Bailly.
Salah’s second win has etched his name alongside Yaya Toure, El Hadji Diouf and Samuel Eto’o for players who have won the award back to back.