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Mohamed Salah has been named the new captain of Egypt\u2019s national football team, recently-appointed head coach<\/a> Hossam El Badry announced on Saturday, according to the local press<\/a>. Speculation was rife that Salah may leave the Pharaohs following tension with the Egyptian Football Association<\/a> (EFA) for allegedly not voting for Salah to receive the Best Fifa Men\u2019s Player Award. Fifa later explained that their votes were not counted because they were invalid<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mohamed Salah has been named the new captain of Egypt\u2019s national football team, recently-appointed head coach Hossam El Badry announced on Saturday, according to the local press. Speculation was rife that Salah may leave the Pharaohs following tension with the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) for allegedly not voting for Salah to receive the Best Fifa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[72,358,162],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-593547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-_newspack_sports","tag-enterpriseam","tag-mohamed-salah","tag-sports","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"2c0cbcac-995f-48c0-a009-b13b432d77a0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[593506],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nMo Salah named captain of Egypt\u2019s national football team - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/10\/01\/mo-salah-named-captain-of-egypts-national-football-team\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mo Salah named captain of Egypt\u2019s national football team\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mohamed Salah has been named the new captain of Egypt\u2019s national football team, recently-appointed head coach Hossam El Badry announced on Saturday, according to the local press. 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