Sadio Mané

Sadio Mané is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr and the Senegal national team, widely regarded as one of the best wingers of his generation and one of the greatest African players of all time. ¹ The English article describes him as a practising Muslim; it names no school for him, so his data record leaves his faith as unknown. ¹

He was born on 10 April 1992 in Bambali, Sédhiou, Senegal, to Guinean parents, and grew up in a religious household. ¹ His father, an imam, forbade him from playing football as a child and wanted him to prioritise his religious studies; his father died when Mané was seven. ¹ At 15 he ran away from his home village with the help of a childhood friend, Luc Djiboune, and went to Dakar to pursue his ambition of becoming a footballer, and from then on his family supported him. ¹ In 2009 he was spotted playing in M'Bour and referred to Génération Foot, which he helped win promotion to the second division. ¹

In 2011 he joined Metz in France, making his professional debut on 14 January 2012, and in August 2012 he moved to Red Bull Salzburg in Austria for €4 million, winning a league and cup double in 2013–14. ¹ On 1 September 2014 he transferred to Southampton for £11.8 million, a club record fee. ¹ On 16 May 2015 he scored three times in 2 minutes 56 seconds in a 6–1 win over Aston Villa, setting a Premier League record for the fastest hat-trick that had stood since 1994. ¹

On 28 June 2016 he joined Liverpool for £34 million, then the highest fee paid for an African player. ¹ With Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino he formed a celebrated attacking trio, reached back-to-back Champions League finals in 2018 and 2019 and won the 2019 final, in which he had scored Liverpool's goal in the 2018 final — the first Senegalese to score in a European Cup final. ¹ He finished joint top scorer in the 2018–19 Premier League, winning the Golden Boot, helped Liverpool end their 30-year title wait in 2019–20, and in October 2021 became the third African to score 100 Premier League goals. ¹ He finished second in the 2022 Ballon d'Or. ¹

After a season with Bayern Munich in 2022–23 he moved to Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia in 2023. ¹ For Senegal he has been his country's all-time top scorer; he helped Senegal to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations final, was named African Footballer of the Year in 2019 and again in 2022, and in the 2021 tournament's final he scored the winning penalty in the shoot-out that gave Senegal their first Africa Cup of Nations title and was named Player of the Tournament. ¹ He represented Senegal at the 2018 World Cup and missed the 2022 tournament through injury. ¹

The English article's personal-life section calls him "a practising Muslim" who is occasionally seen making du'a before the start of a match. ¹ His philanthropy in Bambali is widely reported, including funding a mosque, a school and a hospital in his home village; these are accounts of his practice and giving as the sources report them, and no source used here names a school or madhhab for him. ¹

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