Mohamed Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the Egypt national.
The Egyptian national team is the most successful national team in Africa, having won the Africa Cup of Nations a record seven times: the inaugural edition in 1957 and on home soil in 1959, as well as the 1986 edition, 1998, 2006 in Egypt, 2008 and 2010. Egypt has also been as high as ninth in the FIFA World Rankings, making the team one of only three African national teams to enter the world's top ten (the other two are Nigeria and Morocco). Despite their respectable continental record, Egypt has so far made only three appearances in the World Cup (in 1934, 1990 and 2018). The Egyptian team was the first non-European nor American team to qualify for the World Cup.

Egypt is notorious for holding a spectacular continental record yet failing to deliver in the world stage. Their first and second participation was separated by a record high 56 years and 13 days, spanned between 1934 and 1990. Another record Egypt holds is the oldest player to have ever played at the World Cup; goalkeeper Essam El Hadary played at the 2018 FIFA World Cup aged 45 years and 156 days old. Egypt has yet to win a game in the World Cup.