Salman Al-Faraj .. The Joker’s march in the middle of the Saudi green and the leader of Asia
He possesses remarkable skills and abilities. He is also a leader with a unique football flavour. He gives those around him confidence and reassurance. No one can deny that his green shirt has been dyed the color of the stadiums. He passes the ball between his feet in the middle of the field as if he has charmed it, so it surrendered to him. He is skilled in defense, proficient on the sides, able to deviate from his basic tasks to support, attack and score, plans change and equations change, and he remains the most important element on which the squad is built, and in which it was said (if Salman comes, everything is fixed), he is the pomegranate of balance. The Saudi national team midfielder and Asian leader Al Hilal Club, Salman Al-Faraj, the most prominent player of the champions of the golden generation of Al Hilal.
Salman Muhammad Al-Faraj was born on August 1, 1989, and the beginning of his sports career came in 2004, when luck smiled on him in the youth sector when he was playing in a Ramadan tournament at Al-Hilal Club, which coincided with the presence of Prince Muhammad bin Faisal, who witnessed the activities of the match in which Salman Al-Faraj participated in the stadium Sixths, to invite him and talk to him immediately after the end of the match and praise his performance, and recommend registering him within the club’s age groups, this was in the presence of Khaled Al-Hubaish, the administrative official in the youth team.
He underwent a test with the team and spent a rich period with it from 2004 to 2008, which resulted in him being officially registered as a player in the leader of Asia, and he was 19 years old at the time.
Salman is also the owner of the fifth fastest goal in the Saudi Professional League, and it was in front of Al-Shoula Club in the 15th second.
Salman Al-Faraj joined the Saudi national under-23 team 2011/2012,
Then he joined the Saudi Green for the first time in 2012, in an international friendly match against Congo, specifically on October 14, and ended with Saudi Arabia winning 3/2.
Salman Al-Faraj scored many international goals, perhaps the most prominent of which was in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, where he scored four goals alone out of a total of seven goals for the team. During the World Cup held in Russia, Al-Faraj scored his first World Cup goal against Egypt in the match that ended in favor of Saudi Arabia 2-1, but was excluded from the Al-Akhdar squad heading to the UAE to compete in the 2019 Asian Cup due to injury.
Achievements
Al-Hilal Club
Saudi Crown Prince Cup (7 times): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016
Saudi Professional League (4 times): 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2016/2017, 2017/2018.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup (2): 2015, 2017
Saudi Super Cup (2): 2015, 2018
AFC Champions League (2): 2019, 2021
Internationally
Qualification for the World Cup Russia 2018