The poll of Arab journalists to choose the Golden Ball “Balloon” winner for the year 2022, which was Frenchman Karim Benzema, was made public by the French publication France Football, which is in charge of the prize.
The vote of all participating Arab journalists, which included “Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Oman,” was in favour of France. Karim Benzema came first, while Mohamed Salah didn’t get the national team’s best player. Only Enas Mazhar, a journalist for the publication “AHram Weekly,” has Liverpool in first place.
Mohamed Salah finished fifth on the list of the top players in the world, which is an improvement from previous year when he came in seventh.
Salah has nominated the award since his transfer to Liverpool every year, but he never won it, and the fifth place was his best ranking in the balloon award, where he was also achieved in 2019..
Find out more about the 2022 Arab Golden Ball Award.
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