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How Salah was converted into a forward from a defender

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah "was always very quick and getting into good positions" as his academy coach Said El Shishiny moved him from the left-back position into a forward.

Attending the El Mokawloon FC academy in Cairo during his youth days, Salah started as a defender, but El Shishiny saw some attacking prowess in the player and moved him further up the field.

It was days of sacrifice as Salah would travel for four hours every day from his home village of Nagrig to Cairo and back as he pursued football as a career.

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El Shishiny claims to be the one who engineered Salah's promotion to the El Mokawloon first team, where he made his Egyptian Premier League debut as a 17-year-old in 2010.