The forward completed a six-year spell at Liverpool to sign for Bayern Munich, but the Senegalese doesn’t fit the millionaire star stereotype.
Bayern Munich recently secured the services of Senegalese striker Sadio Mané (30), who after winning everything during his six seasons at Liverpool was looking for a new challenge for his career, finding himself in the Bavarian club, with which he signed for three campaigns, a project worthy of his ambition.
But if the footballer is characterized by anything, it is by not letting himself be carried away by success, fame or money as happens to other stars in the world of sport or show business, who dedicate a good part of their fortune to be squandered meaninglessly. Nothing could be further from reality. Mané knows very well what he is talking about.
“Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches or two airplanes? What will these objects do for me and for the world? I was hungry and had to work in the fields; I survived hard times, I played football barefoot, I had no education and many other things but today with what I earn from football I can help my people”explained the attacker to the Ghanaian media nsemwoha.com in 2019.
And that is precisely what he has done in recent years. Mane was born in Bambali, Sédhiou (Senegal), a small town of 2,000 people on the western edge of North Africa and to say the footballer grew up in poverty would be an understatement.
His fishing village, on the banks of the Casamance river, is more than seven hours from the capital. There are no paved roads.
Cows and goats roam among the people, and many women have given birth at home because the town didn’t have a hospital or someone, like her father, died because they couldn’t get proper medical care. Until Mané solved it by building a hospital.
But he also built a school, he gave a laptop to each pupil, he financed a new gas station, he built a post office, a stadium, he donated sports equipment to all the children. of the community and he even installed a 4G network service station for the whole city.
Not to mention that he gives 70 euros a month to all the inhabitants of a very poor region of Senegal, which contributes to his family economy.
“I don’t need to post fancy cars, fancy homes, trips, and even planes. I prefer that my people receive a little of what life has given me,” confides the brand new Bayern Munich striker. A star that shines and enlightens its people by its example and seeks a rain of millions of euros that falls where it is most needed.
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