Egyptian football player Mohamed Salah, Liverpool’s star, will not attend the CAF Awards ceremony scheduled to be held on 7 January at Albatros Citadel Sahl Hasheesh, Hurghada, Egypt, press reports confirmed on Monday.
Goal correspondent Neil Jones has recently confirmed that Salah won’t attend 2019 CAF awards.
On his part, Liverpool’s manager Klopp confirmed that Senegalese forward Sadio Mane will attend Tuesday’s ceremony.
According to France 24, Mane is set to be crowned the African Player of the Year 2019.
The Confederation of the African Football (CAF) has finally revealed the final shortlist, which included the iconic Egyptian star Salah, Mane and Algeria’s and Man City’s star Riyad Mahrez.
The 27-year-old Egyptian star won the Premier League top scorer award in 2019, as well as the Uefa Champions League, Uefa Super Cup and recently the Fifa Club World Cup titles with Liverpool.
On the otherhand, Mane guided his national team to reach the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, before suffering a 0-1 defeat from Algeria.
He also claimed the Uefa Champions League, Uefa Super Cup and recently the Fifa Club World Cup trophies with Liverpool.
Mahrez smashed a number of records during 2019 as he led his national team to lift the Africa Cup of Nations title.
It is noteworthy that CAF officials invited some of the Egyptian League's clubs presidents, headed by Mahmoud Al-Khatib, head of Al-Ahly Club and head of Al-Jazira Club Omar Jazzarin, in addition to Hassan Shehata, former coach of the Egyptian team, and Shawky Gharib, coach of the Egyptian Olympic team, to attend the CAF ceremony.
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