FC Basel is in crisis. In the second leg of the Champions League qualification against Romanian champions Cluj, a victory has produced with at least two goals. Precisely today its new engine is probably missing the Association: Mohamed Salah.

As Ramadan ended last week, football player Mohamed Salah was particularly pleased. No matter whether training or competitive matches, the native Egyptians, water drank a little. Now there is but only one goal for him: the group stage of the Champions League. The 20-year old Egyptian received many offers from Europe - such as by Espanyol Barcelona - already. FC Basel seemed the most promising in his eyes, after all, he wants to play in the Champions League. For him, Basel is a stop-over, the Champions League as the catwalk of the European football scene. Here he wants to present themselves, it is advised for the big clubs. This dream could burst for the time being. The FC Basel the first leg against the Romanian champions Cluj lost last Tuesday.
The hero of Egypt

Today, coach Heiko Vogel traveled to Cluj, Transylvania. The task is not impossible If it not the League match last Saturday. That is the unlucky series of FCB with a defeat in the direction of a serious crisis, strikers Marco Streller and winger Mohamed Salah had not only due to injury from the playing field. Both probably now sit on the bench. Only this season moved the 20 year old from Egypt in the Switzerland. Already after his second competitive match against FC Thun in the fans chose the winger to the man of the match. He was involved in all three goals, brought the FCB even into the lead through a penalty. "Coming in a quarter of an hour and I think: incredible", it brings coach bird to the point. "He has two or three arms that make us unpredictable as a player," recognizes also a teammate of Streller. His biggest weapon is his speed. In his homeland he is already considered the deadliest weapon, the Egyptian Football League has to offer. His talent he could prove most recently international in London: the first time since 1992 to qualify the country for an Olympic Games. Salah scored a goal in each game. In the end, his team reached the quarter-finals, a triumph which had existed last in 1984. The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram titled the game and success as salah inspired, he was celebrated as the most important player of success. The 1.75-inch player with the black curls also declined offers of the Egyptian top clubs such as al-Ahly and Zamalek. His destination is Europe.

What makes the young star but so unpredictable, is his instinct. His colleagues, a footballer of the bird long and carefully searched had called him an instinct player. As none other than Mohamed Salah is intended to replace the former crowd pleaser Xherdan Shaqiri. This is a street footballer swift and just unpredictable. In terms of offensive Salah is can be used on any position, both wings, the striker or behind the striker. Mohamed Salah bothers rather to his intuitive type of game. "I lack even the necessary game intelligence," admits the players in an interview with the Basler Zeitung. Instead of reading, intuitive Act the game, and he decide to this for the worse variant, he would have to change this. He would not listen to Sam comparisons: "Sam is an excellent player and not in vain for Bayern Munich."

Salah can only watch

By a whisker, FC Basel would have been making it into the Champions League already against models, the champion from Norway, missed. Shortly before the end of the referee spoke to the Norwegians a penalty, goalkeeper Yann summer held and brought a round of further the FCB. Would have Basel lost they would not even progressed in the Europe League! Mohamed Salah at that moment thought his life was over. Similar to will he feel again today, with the only difference being that the feeling will last at least 90 minutes. Much like when a penalty kick, he has the buzz today not in the hand. His fate, whether he will play soon before the important of international football, is in the hands of his teammates. He can only pray and, if it runs bad, keep hands before the face.