Winger Liverpool and Egyptian national team Mohamed Salah received the BBC award for the best African football player of the year.

Egyptian winger Liverpool, Mohamed Salah was recognized as the best African football player in 2017 by the BBC.

In the fight for the award, Salah beat Gabon forward Dortmund Borussia Pierre-Emerick Obama, Guinean midfielder RB Leipzig Nabi Keith, Senegalese forward Liverpool Sadio Manet and Nigerian midfielder Chelsea Victor Mozes.

This season, Salah is the best scorer of the English Premier League with 13 goals scored, and earlier this year, his double took the Egyptian team to the World Cup 2018.

Previous winners of the award:.

2016: Riyadh Mares (Leicester and Algeria) 2015: Yaya Toure (Manchester City and Cote d'Ivoire) 2014: Yassin Brahimi (Porto and Algeria) 2013: Yaya Toure (Manchester City and Cote d'Ivoire) 2012: Chris Catongo (Henan Construction and Zambia) 2011: Andre Ayyu (Marseille and Ghana) 2010: Asamoah Gyan (Sunderland and Ghana) 2009: Didier Drogba (Chelsea and Cote d'Ivoire) 2008: Mohamed Abutrika (Al-Ahli and Egypt) 2007:

Emmanuel Adebayor (Arsenal and Togo) 2006: Michael Essien (Chelsea and Ghana) 2005: Mohamed Barakat (Al-Ahli and Egypt) 2004: JJ Ococha (Bolton and Nigeria) 2003: JJ Ococha (Bolton and Nigeria) 2002 : El-Hadji Diouf (Liverpool and Senegal) 2001: Samuel Kuffur (Bayern and Ghana) 2000: Patrick Mboma (Parma and Cameroon) Do you want to be the first to find the top football news? Subscribe to our channel in Telegram! You can also follow our website in Viber and Twitter.