Ikon kwallon kafa na Masar Mohammed Salah shi ne mai karbar lambar yabo ta jere, wanda ya taimaka wa Liverpool ta lashe gasa uku na cikin gida, gasar zakarun Turai da Super Cup a Turai da kuma gasar cin kofin duniya na kungiyoyi.
Sai dai akwai lambar yabo guda daya da ta bata, kuma ya samu dama ta biyar don samun ta a gasar cin kofin nahiyar Afirka ta 2025 a Morocco, wanda za a fara ranar Lahadi.
Salah ya zo kusa da zafi sau biyu kuma, a wasu lokuta biyu, ya ga tarihin sau bakwai AFCON zakarun sun fado a zagayen bugun farko.
Shi ne ya kirkiro kwallon da ta baiwa Masar tazarar nasara a wasan karshe da Kamaru a Gabon a 2017, amma kwallon da ta ci ta bai wa Indomitable Lions nasara.
Masar mai masaukin baki ta kasance a saman tebur bayan shekaru biyu, amma ta sha kashi mai ban sha’awa na zagaye na 16 a hannun Afirka ta Kudu a birnin Alkahira.
Salah da takwarorinsa sun fafata a wasan karshe na 2022 a Kamaru, amma bayan mintuna 120 babu ci a karawarsu da Senegal, Masar ta yi rashin nasara a bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida.
A Ivory Coast a shekarar da ta gabata Salah ya rama bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida inda aka tashi kunnen doki a wasansu na farko na rukuni da Mozambique, sannan ya samu rauni a karawar da Ghana ta yi, aka kore shi daga gasar.
Ya koma Liverpool don jinya yayin da Masar ta sake yin rashin nasara a bugun fenariti, a wannan karon a hannun Jamhuriyar Dimokaradiyyar Kwango a wasan zagaye na 16 na karshe.
Bayan wasanni hudu a jere Salah yana da dalili na tunanin ko zai taba cin lambar yabo ta AFCON.
Amma rashin tausayi ba ya cikin DNA na dan wasan mai shekaru 33 da haihuwa wanda ya zura kwallo a ragar Liverpool magoya bayan Liverpool da ke kira “Sarkin Masar”.
“Ina da yakinin cewa wata rana zan kasance cikin tawagar Masar da ta lashe gasar cin kofin Afrika,” kamar yadda ya shaida wa manema labarai sau da yawa.
Sai dai a yayin da Masar din ta taba zama kungiyar da ta doke ta a gasar AFCON, a yanzu ta na fuskantar gasa mai tsanani kuma ba ta wuce daya daga cikin wadanda za su iya lashe gasar ba a Morocco, inda mai masaukin baki ke kan gaba.
Masar za ta kara da Zimbabwe ta farko a rukunin B, a ranar 22 ga watan Disamba, sannan kuma za ta kara da Afirka ta Kudu da Angola.
– Zaɓuɓɓuka masu ban mamaki –
Idan aka yi la’akari da cewa Fir’auna ya kai matakin zagayen gaba, dole ne su yi nasara a wasanni hudu don samun nasarar lashe gasar a karon farko tun bayan da suka doke Ghana a wasan karshe na 2010 a Angola.
Kociyan kungiyar Hossam Hassan ya taba zama babban dan wasan gaba kuma wanda ya lashe lambar zinare ta AFCON kuma Salah na daya daga cikin zabin kai hare-hare da dama.
Daga cikin su akwai Omar Marmoush na Manchester City, Mostafa Mohamed na Nantes da kuma tauraro biyu daga zakarun kulob na Afirka Al Ahly sau 12 a Mahmoud ‘Trezguet’ Hassan da Ahmed ‘Zizo’ El Sayed.
Abin da ka iya damu Hassan shi ne salon golan Ahly Mohamed El Shenawy, wanda ya taba zama babban mai tsaron gida a Afirka amma yanzu yana fuskantar kurakurai.
Salah ya isa Agadir, wani birni da ke gabar teku a kudancin Morocco inda za su buga dukkan wasannin zagayen farko na uku, bayan shafe mako guda suna wasan kwaikwayo dangane da makomarsa a Liverpool.
Cikin bacin rai da kasancewa wanda ya maye gurbin wasanni uku kai tsaye, Salah mai cike da rudani ya shaida wa manema labarai bayan an tashi kunnen doki a Leeds United cewa “an jefa shi a karkashin motar bas”.
Ya kuma yi imanin cewa kyakkyawar dangantakarsa da koci Arne Slot ta tabarbare, kuma shi ne wanda ya zame wa Liverpool rashin nasara a gasar Premier da gasar zakarun Turai.
A yayin da ake ta rade-radin cewa zai bar Anfield a kasuwar musayar ‘yan wasa ta watan Janairu ya koma Saudi Pro League mai tsada, Salah ya fito daga benci a karshen makon da ya gabata a wasan da suka doke Brighton da ci 2-0.
Slot ya dage bayan nasarar da ake bukata cewa babu “babu batun warwarewa” tare da tauraron sa na gaba, wanda ke cikin farkon kakar sabuwar kwangilar shekaru biyu.
Salah ne ya zura kwallo ta biyu a ragar Liverpool Hugo Ekitike inda ya wuce Wayne Rooney a matsayin dan wasan da ya fi zura kwallo a kulob guda a tarihin gasar Premier, inda ya kai 277.
Salah dai ya sha fama da zura kwallo a raga a kakar wasa ta bana. Yana fatan sauyin yanayi daga Liverpool zuwa Agadir zai sa ya dawo gamawa na asibiti.
