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Mohamed Salah - Egyptian king

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Getty Images John Bennett BBC World Service in Egypt

"Whenever I walk in here, I can't help but recall how he used to move and the way he controlled the ball. It was something else."

One of Mohamed Salah's first coaches is opening the all-new dark green gates of the youth centre in Nagrig, a village about three hours north of Cairo. This is where it all began for one of the world's most prolific forwards - a player who propelled Liverpool to the Premier League title in May.

It was on the streets of Nagrig where a seven-year-old Salah , external would play football with his friends, pretending to be Brazil striker Ronaldo, France's legendary playmaker Zinedine Zidane or Italian maestro Francesco Totti.

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