“We feel like we want to fix things, but revenge? That’s not our thing“said coach Jürgen Klopp, recalling 2018 when Sergio Ramos, who has since moved to Paris Saint-Germain, injured Salah early in the game and later dealt goalkeeper Loris Karius a painful blow.
Even when he was at Borussia Dortmund, Klopp would have liked to work with Mané, but he couldn’t get him freed from Salzburg. Mané ended up at Klopp in north-west England and one of the best and most traditional clubs in the world via Southampton FC.
Donations for school and hospital
Mané was born in Bambali. Oliver Kay, a well-known football reporter from England, visited the place in southern Senegal a few years ago and wrote a long text describing how they celebrate with Mané there, admire him and thank him. It is said that the soccer star has donated several hundred thousand euros for the construction of a school, and that the devout Muslim is giving every resident of Bambali money for Ramadan.
What is guaranteed is that Sadio Mané promoted the construction of a hospital in Bambali. He is said to have contributed half a million euros.
Sadio Mané was seven years old when his father died. The news reached him while playing soccer. He didn’t want to believe it at first.
The Manés are said to have been very poor, a resident of Bambali is quoted in Kay’s text. Little Sadio had to work in the fields to help the family. He always dreamed of becoming a footballer. That’s why he moved to the capital Dakar, a good 300 kilometers from Bambali, at the age of 15.
That’s where they found him. Mané moved to Europe in 2011, like many of his African colleagues first to France, to FC Metz. Then Salzburg, then Southampton.
“Sadio Mané – Child of Bambalis, pride of a whole nation“, is written on a poster in his home village. When big games are coming up, the professional sends packages with jerseys from him to his home country. Another big game is coming up against Real Madrid. In Liverpool and Bambali they are hoping for the Sadio Mané of 2022.