Sadio Mane is one of world football’s biggest superstars. But even his own mother thought he was “crazy” when he declared he wanted to be a footballer.
The odds were stacked firmly against Mane, growing up in the remote Senegalese village of Bambani and sometimes using grapefruits in place of footballs due to a lack of equipment.
It is easy to see why his uncle, who took him under his wing after the tragic death of his father when he was just seven years old, branded his dream “impossible” when he declared he would one day ensure he did not have to do fieldwork to survive. “It wasn’t easy.
Life was hard there,” Mane explains in a new documentary for Rakuten TV detaining his incredible journey in his own words. “You could only become a
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