For soccer players celebration after creating goals is a habit that is often done to celebrate and as an expression of happiness with its success. Many styles and ways of goal celebration are performed by the players, who then become their own trademarks.
Francesco Totti did a goal celebration by sucking his thumb, as an expression of affection for his wife who had a habit of sucking the thumb. Lionel Messi, the same dot Totti also sucked his thumbs to celebrate his goal, but unlike Totti, this celebration was done Messi to express his joy with the birth of his second child, as reported by liputan6.com (15/11/16).
Many other celebrated celebrities do soccer players after creating a goal, which averages as a happy expression or affection for a beloved wife and child. However, there is a celebration that is arguably the most religious, performed by a football player especially for football players who have a career in the Europa League.
The celebration was conducted by a Liverpool player who came from Egypt. The player is Mohamed Salah, the most fertile current attacker in the Premier League. After successfully creating a goal for Liverpool, Mohamed Salah always celebrate by doing prostration of Gratitude, as reported by cnn.com (23/06/17).
Celebration by doing prostration is certainly a bit strange witnessed the average audience is not a Muslim. But that's where make the goosebumps for the audience, either watching directly in the stadium or from the television screen.
Especially for a religious audience, Selebrasi Mohamed Salah who performs Sujud as a thanksgiving to God for the goal he created must be due to the permission of Allah. This celebration reminds us all of us, that a Mohamed Salah who is a football star in Liverpool's great club alone is always grateful to God's grace to him. Whereas we audiences who can only sit to watch, have also been thanking God for all that He has given us?