Mo Salah nominated for huge BBC award - but there is a glaring omission from shortlist

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The Footballer of the Year and Golden Boot winner is up for another honour in 2025 despite the year ending with him frozen out of the Liverpool squad by manager Arne SlotMo Salah is on the shortlist for the BBC World Sport Star award(Image: PA)After an eventful few days, there was a bit of standard, good news for Mo Salah, and it came from the BBC. The current Footballer of the Year was named on a six-strong shortlist for the BBC’S World Sport Star award for 2025.For those of a certain vintage, that is the award formerly known as the Overseas Sports Personality of the Year.

Having won individual accolades at the end of the 2024/25 football season and helped Liverpool complete the task of winning the Premier League (they were six points clear at the beginning of the year), that Salah should be in contention for such an award is understandable.But this is an award for 2025 and Salah has scored 18 goals for his club across all competitions in 2025. In more than one way, it has been a memorable year for Salah.He collected a Premier League winners medal, a Golden Boot, the Football Writers’ Footballer of the Year award, the PFA Player of the Year award, a new contract, and has been ostracised.

But from a performance point of view, it has not been a strictly vintage year.Tadej Pogacar won his fourth Tour de France and is on his way to becoming the greatest cyclist of all time(Image: Dario Belingheri, Getty Images)Still, his presence on a shortlist for a World Sport Star award of 2025 is not surprising. He could end up being the GOAT.The two-way baseball player, Shohei Ohtani, has been named on the BBC World Sport Star award shortlist(Image: Getty Images)In 2025, he won the European and World Championships.