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"Mo Salah, A Weird Name for Indonesians"

4 Mei 2018   14:26 Diperbarui: 4 Mei 2018   14:43 1082
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Mohamed Salah, an Egyptian soccer player for England Premiere League (EPL) Liverpool FC has been a new idol in the world especially for Liverpudlians, loyal fans of the club. Salah who successfully brings its club to the final of the champions league this year is the most prominent player of the club as he has proved to be the best player at EPL in 2018. He has scored 43 goals in his debut in EPL and he has defeated the legendary top scorers of  the club like Robby Fowler and Fernando Torres.

As a moslem follower, Mohamed Salah, has shown his kindness to the humanity and religion, somethings rare shown by common famous moslem soccer players; The reason that Indonesians who are the largest moslem populations in the world put him as a good example. However, some ordinary local moslems think his "sacred" name Mohamed (the name of the Prophet Mohamed) becomes Mo is not easily understood in the domestic ears. Mo in Bahasa Indonesia(Indonesian Formal and State Language) can be spelled "moh or emoh" means "no or don't want it" while in English itself, "moo" is the sound of a cow.

Salah in Arabic means "worship" but in Bahasa Indonesia it means "wrong" or "incorrect". Can you imagine if Indonesians hear that name uttered completely, it means Mohamed is wrong or The prophet is incorrect. What a pathetic fact! A similar fun story once happened , a Briton felt interrupted when Indonesian mentioned "Inggris" for British. Inggris in Bahasa Indonesia means "British, English,  England or Great Britain.

In fact, the 25-year-old player has scored goals more than expected and lifted the club originated from the city where the famous rock n roll band, The Beatles started the career, doesn't and won't make any wrong decision to leave the club to the richest club in the world, Real Madrid. Unfortunatelly, if money-talk rules, the player who plays as a forward might be transferred to that Spain club and his loyal fans will say it , Salah is wrong! (Then Indonesians could understand it, the right meaning of Salah).

Mo Salah is the first player winning three Premier League Player of the month awards in the same season and he deserves more to get the Balon d'Or, a trophy of the best player in Europe, to compete with Christiano Ronaldo and Lionel  Messi this year.

Time will tell Salah is right name or wrong name! Just a joke!

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