{"id":12916,"date":"2018-08-27T15:24:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12916"},"modified":"2018-08-27T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T15:24:13","slug":"mohamed-salah-hits-out-at-egyptian-fa-over-image-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12916","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah hits out at Egyptian FA over image use"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Egyptian footballer Mohamed Salah has lashed out at his country’s football association, reigniting a months-old dispute with officials over the unauthorised use of his image.<\/p>\n

In a tweet sent out on Sunday, the Liverpool star said Egyptian football authorities had ignored communication from himself and his lawyer.<\/p>\n

“It’s normal for a football association to work towards solving its players’ problems so that they can be relaxed,” he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“But in reality, I don’t see anything exept the opposite. It’s not normal that they ignore messages from me and my lawyer. I don’t know why? Don’t they have enough time to respond to us.”<\/p>\n

Salah’s troubles with the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) is believed to stem from the use of his image on the national team’s plane in April this year.<\/p>\n

The Egyptian team is sponsored by telecommunications company WE, but Salah has a separate sponsorship deal with rival firm, Vodafone, which prevents him from public association with competitors.<\/p>\n

When the issue first came to light, Salah wrote that he was “extremely” insulted<\/a>\u00a0by the move.<\/p>\n

The Liverpool striker is reported to have been further angered after being made to appear alongside Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, a strongman with a reputation for human rights abuses, prior to the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n

Salah is said to have told teammates<\/a> that he was considering quitting the national team after the appearance with Kadyrov.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old shot to prominence after a breakout season with Liverpool, in which he scored 44 goals, and helped the team reach its first Champions League final in a decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egyptian footballer Mohamed Salah has lashed out at his country’s football association, reigniting a months-old dispute with officials over the unauthorised use of his image. In a tweet sent out on Sunday, the Liverpool star said Egyptian football authorities had ignored communication from himself and his lawyer. “It’s normal for a football association to work…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}