The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) has written to Fifa for an explanation of its missing votes for the Best Fifa Men’s Player award.

The EFA says that Pharaohs’ acting coach Shawky Gharib and captain Ahmed Elmohamady placed votes for Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah that were not counted.

Neither are included in the voting breakdown on Fifa’s website.

Since the awards ceremony, Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah has removed ‘Egypt’ from his Twitter profile.

His profile now simply reads: “Footballer for Liverpool FC.”

He also posted a Tweet which translates as: “Whatever they do to try to change my love for Egypt, they will not succeed.”

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi won the Best Fifa Men’s Player award on Monday night ahead of Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo and Salah’s Liverpool team-mate Virgil van Dijk.

In 2018, Salah came third in the men’s award and also took the Puskas Award for the goal of the season.

Each nation has three voters: the national team coach, the national team captain, and a media representative.

The EFA says that both Gharib and Elmohamady had Salah as their first choices in their votes.

The media representative Hany Danial’s choices were Sadio Mane followed by Cristiano Ronaldo, with Salah in third place.

It is not the first time that Salah has been upset with the EFA, following a row last year over the image rights that saw him threaten to quit the national team.

Source: https://quickgetpay.com.ng/article/37227/egypt-fa-confronts-fifa-over-missing-votes-salah-angry/

Hmm

The Egyptian coach and captain voted for Messi. Sorry, Salah. You don’t expect them to lie, they already know who’s the best player.
Salah should head to Tribunal... FIFA should declare the election Inconclusive.

Salah's battle with d Egyptian FA didn't start today, it has nothing to do with whether he was voted or not.. Dey shld ask their coach who he really voted for.. D same way d Sudanese coach presented an edited form to claim his vote was changed...

If the vote was really changed, do you think FIFA would present it to the public?
The dude is lying.

I just read about the EFA, FIFA and salah saga. it is just a case of invalid voting process.

the captain and coach of Egypt both claimed they voted for salah which fifa confirmed in a statement but they stressed that the duo votes were rendered invalid because of the usage of capital letters and absence of signatures.

so no one can blame fifa and why did the media personnel representing Egypt vote for mane and Ronaldo before salah. that is serious beef