The Ballon d’Or ceremony takes place in Paris tonight, and Liverpool are properly represented throughout the varied male classes.
When the candidates for every separate prize have been confirmed final month, the Reds had seven nominations in whole.
Mo Salah, Virgil van Dijk, Alexis Mac Allister and Florian Wirtz are among the many 30-man shortlist for the boys’s Ballon d’Or award, with Alisson Becker nominated for the Yachine Trophy, Arne Slot for Males’s Coach of the 12 months, and LFC for Males’s Membership of the 12 months.
Egypt coach says Salah ‘deserves’ to win Ballon d’Or
Egypt head coach Hossam Hassan has unsurprisingly made the case for Liverpool’s quantity 11 to scoop the primary prize, one thing that no Reds participant has finished since Michael Owen in 2001.
The 59-year-old took to Instagram to state (translated from Arabic): ‘Contemplating the difficulties he has confronted all through his profession, he [Salah] deserves it. Contemplating the challenges he has overcome, he deserves it. Contemplating the years of brilliance, excellence, and creativity within the strongest league on the planet, he deserves it.
‘It’s exhausting to achieve the highest, however the actual problem lies in staying on the prime. He has reached the highest and remained there for a few years, due to God first, and to his expertise, exhausting work and dedication, changing into a job mannequin for everybody striving for fulfillment.
‘Isn’t it time for soccer, and for many who determine the winner, to do him justice? Our prayers, and the prayers of all Egyptians and all of Salah’s followers all over the world, are that Salah would be the winner of the Ballon d’Or… an final crowning of the profession of an amazing participant, one who could by no means be repeated within the historical past of Egyptian, Arab, African and even world soccer.’
Does Salah have a practical likelihood of profitable the Ballon d’Or?
Hassan’s passionate pleas for Salah to win the boys’s Ballon d’Or award will echo the ideas of many Liverpool followers worldwide who’d like to see the 33-year-old being formally recognised because the world’s greatest male footballer.
Jamie Carragher has additionally mentioned in current months that the Egyptian has ‘an amazing likelihood’ to observe Rodri because the winner, and a Sky Sports activities preview cites the Reds winger because the ‘greatest hope’ for a present Premier League participant to scoop the primary prize at tonight’s ceremony.
Alas, Paris Saint-Germain ahead Ousmane Dembele is regarded by many bookmakers because the clear favorite for the honour, having supplied 43 purpose contributions final season in serving to his membership to win the Champions League for the primary time.
Even when Salah is ignored for the boys’s Ballon d’Or award, might there be success for Liverpool within the different classes?
PSG’s European success will doubtless see them and Luis Enrique emerge triumphant within the membership and supervisor classes respectively, though Alisson could possibly be in with a greater than believable likelihood of receiving the Yachine Trophy.
Whereas Reds followers shall be centered totally on tomorrow night time’s Carabao Cup conflict towards Southampton, it’d definitely be welcome to see a number of of our representatives on the Ballon d’Or ceremony being named as the perfect of their respective fields.
