Mo Salah’s Christmas surprise puts smile on children’s faces, and ours

One last Mo Salah video to round off the year: We thought for our final issue this year, we’d share a video of Mo Salah paying schoolchildren a surprise visit, with his Liverpool teammates, Xherdan Shaqiri and Andrew “Robbo” Robertson. For some of the students, this was nothing short of a Christmas miracle, especially since many of those interviewed said Salah is their favorite football player — some bursting into song to recite the iconic anthem “Mo Salah, Egyptian king” (watch, runtime 08:12).