Mohamed Salah to Play Final Liverpool Match on Sunday

Mohamed Salah will play his final match for Liverpool on Sunday when the team hosts Brentford at Anfield. The 33-year-old Egyptian forward announced in March that he would leave the club at the end of the season. Liverpool manager Arne Slot stated that Salah deserves a big send-off after nearly a decade at the Premier League club.

Salah has scored more than 250 goals for Liverpool and won two Premier League titles, four league Golden Boots, and three PFA Players of the Year awards.

London-based football journalist Ahmed Shooble told Al Jazeera that Salah’s presence as an openly Muslim player changed how young fans viewed their own identity in English football culture. Shooble recalled that Salah’s sujoud celebration showed that nothing is possible without God.

Shooble also said Salah contributes to reducing Islamophobia in the UK and Europe simply by being himself and displaying piety and humility. North African sports journalist Maher Mezahi told Al Jazeera that Salah’s background of traveling four hours each way from his village of Nagrig to train in Cairo instilled discipline that carried into his professional career.

Mezahi added that Salah’s success inspired Egyptian international Ibrahim Adel to move from a UAE club to Danish side Nordsjaelland. The two players will appear together when Salah captains Egypt at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.