I want you to think about 1934.
That is when Egypt first appeared at a FIFA World Cup. They played one game, lost to Hungary, went home, and spent the next 92 years and 25 days trying to win a single World Cup match. Across four separate appearances, across three different generations of Egyptian football, across every manager and every squad that carried the weight of that history, Egypt never won one. Not once.
On Sunday evening at BC Place in Vancouver, Mohamed Salah finally ended that wait.
