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Liverpool's Egyptian star Mohamed Salah won the 2022 Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Player of the Year award Thursday. 

"Mo Salah takes home PFA Player of the Year Award," the PFA said on its website, adding he has won the award for the second time in his career.

A Liverpool regular since 2017, Salah previously won the 2018 PFA Player of the Year award.

His club Liverpool also paid tribute to the 29-year-old for this honor.

"The PFA Player of the Year…Congratulations, Mo Salah," the Reds said on Twitter.

"It’s a great honour to win a trophy, individual or collective, and this one is big, so very happy and very proud of that. This one is a really good one to win, especially because it’s voted by players. It shows you that you’ve worked really hard and you get what you worked for," Salah said.

Salah scored 23 goals and made 14 assists in 35 English Premier League appearances in the 2021-22 season, in which Liverpool finished second.

Manchester City were crowned the 2022 champions after they bagged 93 points in 38 matches. Their nearest opponents, Liverpool, had 92.

Meanwhile, Manchester City's English midfielder Phil Foden, 22, won a second consecutive PFA Young Player Of The Year award.

Foden, who previously clinched the award in 2021, scored nine goals in 28 Premier League matches to help Man City win the 2022 league title.

In addition, the PFA Premier League Team of the Year was also revealed as Salah has been included in the best starting 11.

- PFA Premier League Team of Year

Goalkeeper: Alisson Becker (Liverpool)

Defenders: Joao Cancelo (Manchester City), Antonio Rudiger (Chelsea), Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool)

Midfielders: Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva (Manchester City), Thiago Alcantara (Liverpool)

Forwards: Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane (Liverpool), Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)