🔻Melissa Redin, the well-known sports writer and journalist, in a section of her book titled “Only Mohamed Salah” has addressed fresh details about the life, hardships, and boundless sacrifices of Mohamed Salah. A compelling book about the ups and downs of this star’s journey, showing how, with iron will and pushing through deprivation, he fulfilled the dream of reaching the summit of world football.

🔹Hamdi Nuh, Salah’s first coach at Al-Macaoulon—whom Salah refers to as “my second father”—says he was willing to sacrifice everything to learn and make progress. For a teenager from the village of “Najarij,” this sacrifice meant enduring a daily round trip of a 9-hour journey, five days a week.

🔹His punishing route involved replacing at least four minibuses on each trip. On bad-luck days, he even had to run a two-kilometer distance with an uphill stretch to make it to training on time.

🔹For his family, this journey was full of stress. His mother was always afraid of deadly incidents involving city minibuses.

🔹Read the rest of this report on the website.