The Egyptian football star, Mohamed Abou Trika, won the title of the most popular football player in the world that was announced this month by the International Association for Football History and Statistics.

The star, who plays for Al Ahly Club of Egypt and the Egyptian national team which currently plays in the African Cup of Nations in Ghana, received more than one million votes.

The Egyptian player was followed by the Saudi player Yasser el Qahtani who received 613.116 votes and the Iraqi player Yones Mahmoud who received 583.769 votes. As for the Brazilian star Kaka, who won the best player in Europe and in the world in the year 2007, came in the seventh place.