Football is the main game in which the Egyptian star, Mohamed Salah, the Liverpool player, emerged, but it was not enough for him.
keen Mohamed Salah He always showed his passion for many other sports apart from football, whether by talking about it, or by actually practicing it.
In the following report, “Al Ain Sports” reviews the most prominent sports in which Mohamed Salah excelled outside the football fields.
tennis
On Monday, the Professional Players Association published a video clip while handing Mohamed Salah and Liverpool players the English Premier League Team of the Year award.
During his speech, Salah said, sending a sarcastic message to his English colleague Alexander Arnold: “I will pass the phone on to someone I defeat permanently in tennis.”
Salah’s joke showed his superiority in tennis over Liverpool players, and his passion for the game that he showed earlier, specifically before the start of the current season.
Last June, the Egyptian star published a picture of him while on vacation, in which he appeared playing a game of tennis, in reference to his passion for it.
Table Tennis
Mohamed Salah’s love for tennis did not stop, as it also included table tennis, a game that is considered more difficult in light of the small size of the table and the need for speed of reaction.
Salah’s passion for the game appeared through his constant joking about it with his Croatian friend Dejan Lovren, when he was a player in Liverpool before leaving last summer.
Salah had joked with Lovren in 2019, when the latter confirmed that table tennis is his favorite game, so that the Egyptian star confirmed that he had won him in 21 of them.
And the matter developed so that the two players played a play-off, in which the Croatian player managed to win two games against one, to settle his funny conflict with the Egyptian star.
Basketball
Apart from racket games, Salah excelled in another game related to the ball, the game of basketball, which the Egyptian star described as his favorite game.
In 2018, the official account of Liverpool FC published a video of some of the players’ preparations before the start of the new season 2018-2019.
The Egyptian star appeared during the video trying to make some shots on the basket, and despite the failure of many of them, he eventually managed to hit the target.
chess
Apart from physical sports, Mohamed Salah showed another game that depends on the mental aspect, which is chess.
Last year, Mohamed Salah published a video clip on his Instagram account, during a chess match between him and his colleague in the Egyptian national team, Ahmed Hassan “Koka”.
And it appeared through the clip that Salah succeeded in outperforming his colleague in the Egyptian national team, who seemed puzzled about how to defeat the Liverpool star.
Salah also published a previous picture of him playing chess with his daughter Makkah, to show his passion for that game.
yoga
As for the most prominent sport in Mohamed Salah’s career, it is the game of yoga, which Mohamed Salah has expressed his passion for over the past periods.
In April 2019, Salah scored Liverpool’s second goal in beating Chelsea (2-0), at “Anfield”, in the 34th round of the English Premier League 2018-2019.
The Egyptian star celebrated his missile goal against Chelsea in a new way, after he worked on simulating a yoga pose.
After the match, Salah revealed the positive effect he gets by practicing yoga, which helps him get more focus.