{"id":13799,"date":"2025-04-28T21:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mohamed-salah-selfie-the-story-of-iconic-liverpool-celebration\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T21:47:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:47:01","slug":"mohamed-salah-selfie-the-story-of-iconic-liverpool-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mohamed-salah-selfie-the-story-of-iconic-liverpool-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah selfie: The story of iconic Liverpool celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Mohamed Salah’s selfie celebration during Liverpool’s Premier League title-clinching win over Tottenham Hotspur has become an iconic moment.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Egyptian scored the Reds’ fourth goal in Sunday’s 5-1 victory at Anfield<\/a> and, after celebrating his strike, borrowed a phone from a staff member before taking a photograph of himself and the cheering Liverpool fans behind him.<\/p>\n

But some have asked could it have been a marketing idea, because the phone Salah used is made by one of Liverpool’s sponsors.<\/p>\n

“At the beginning of the season I always take selfies with players [who score], so for this one I said ‘OK, I have to think of something special because it’s a picture that’s going to be there forever’,” Salah told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

Salah, 32, has frequently posted selfies with Reds team-mates on social media, while his recent two-year contract extension announcement included a self-taken photograph.<\/p>\n

Initially observers thought Salah had taken the phone off a fan in the crowd, but it was a Liverpool staff member located behind the advertising hoardings in front of the Kop.<\/p>\n

The photograph, which Salah and Liverpool posted on their social media accounts, has millions of likes and views.<\/p>\n

But it has courted some controversy with observers wondering if it was a natural celebration, or an advert for Google Pixel, an official partner of the club.<\/p>\n

In response, others have pointed out they could not know Salah would have scored – and none of the first three goalscorers did this celebration – although it was his 33rd goal of the season so not much of a surprise.<\/p>\n

Various Liverpool players have taken part in adverts for Google this season on social media and TV.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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