Liverpool: his youth, his humility … Sadio Mané reveals himself

As twirling on the field as discreet outside, Sadio Mané (26 years) is a strange paradox. Little talkative about his private life, the winger of Liverpool has agreed to confide on Tuesday in the columns of The Team on the eve of the shock against PSG Wednesday in the Champions League, poster for which the Senegalese is uncertain.

"I do not like being on the front of the stage. I believe that we must accept people as they are, with their qualities and their faults. I do not have a huge ego. (…) That does not prevent me from being very ambitious. I understood that to reach the high level, you have to sacrifice a lot of things and be picky about everything that concerns food, rest, discipline"Mané said," The secret of his humility, the Lion of Teranga draws on his roots in the country.

Mané does not forget his roots

"I come from a small village (Bambali, southern Senegal). My father was the imam of the village and he died when I was eleven, I was then raised by my mother, my uncle and my grandmother", told the Red."In my youth, I went to work in fields where rice and peanuts are grown. And I continue to do it when I go back every summer … In the village, humility is an important value: we do not tell it and we listen to the elders when they speak, it's like that."

Far from forgetting his origins, Mané has paid 150 million CFA francs (about 230 000 €) to finance the construction of a school in Bambali. "It is a project that is close to my heart. The construction started this summer and every two weeks I receive pictures that show me the progress of the work. Within a month it will be over, I hope", explained the former pensioner of Foot Generation."You know, in Africa, governments often forget villages. When I lived in Bambali, I had only one obsession, to go to Dakar to become a professional footballer. Now, I want teenagers who grow up in Bambali to stay there."

Anecdote in the mosque

Recently, the unfortunate finalist of the last Champions League was also talked about in a video where we see washing the toilet of a mosque in Liverpool. An episode on which returned the old Messin: "I am a Muslim, I pray five times a day and, as soon as I can, I do it at the mosque. Once I went there, and there, I found a very good friend, a Ghanaian. I invited him to drink tea at home after the prayer and he said, 'No, I have to work, I have to wash the mosque's toilets.' I told him we were going to do it together. At the moment somebody filmed us and I asked him not to put on line this video. He swore he would not do it and the next day it was on the Internet (he sighs). Well, it's not very serious …"On many points, Mané finally reminds another player very appreciated by the public, a certain N'Golo Kanté!