CAIRO, EGYPT – MARCH 25: Mohamed Salah Al-Masry points during the FIFA World Cup AFCON third round qualifier match between Egypt and Senegal at the Cairo International Stadium in Cairo, Egypt on March 25, 2022. (Photo by Adam Henein/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
In a losing World Cup qualifier match, Egypt’s Mohamed Salah sailed off a penalty kick after fans aimed lasers at his face.
How in the world did the play stop? This is what Egyptian football fans around the world must be asking themselves after superstar Mohamed Salah was about to take a penalty, but was shot with lasers in his face.
In a winning and losing match in the World Cup qualifiers, Salah sailed with a penalty kick in the penalty shootout. His teammate in the Liverpool team, Sadio Mane, scored his goal, and sent Senegal to the World Cup. This is how Salah and Egypt came out.
Lasers were never allowed all over Mohamed Salah
It’s heartbreaking enough for Egypt that they won’t be heading to Qatar later this year for the World Cup, but the team also had to witness Senegalese fans do it with Salah too? There is simply no way he could have been fully focused trying to shoot with lasers all over him.
How were these fans allowed to enter the stadium with these lasers? Once security saw this happen, they needed to force the fans to stop what they were doing and take them out of the stadium as well.
This was not an international friendly match. This was the match and the penalty shootout that was deciding which country would participate in the World Cup. Playing in the tournament, which takes place once every four years, is what these countries and teams train so hard. The thought that these lasers cost Egypt a trip to Egypt should infuriate many people there.
Now, those disgruntled fans will be left wondering what it would have been if he hadn’t been distracted by Salah in such a blatant way.
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