Sadio Mané 

(born 10 April 1992) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as

a winger for Premier League club Liverpool and the Senegal national team. Mané finished fourth for
the 2019 Ballon d'Or, and in the award for the Best FIFA Men's Player he ranked fifth in 2019 and
fourth in 2020.[5][6]
Mané began his professional career with Ligue 2 club Metz at age 19, but he departed after a
solitary season to join Austrian club Red Bull Salzburg in 2012 for a fee of €4 million, winning
a league and cup domestic double in the 2013–14 season. Later that summer, Mané transferred to
English club Southampton for a club record fee of £11.8 million. There, he set a new Premier
League record for the fastest hat-trick, scored in 176 seconds in a 6–1 win over Aston Villa in 2015.[7]
Mané signed for fellow Premier League side Liverpool in 2016, for a reported fee of £34 million. He
helped the side reach back-to-back UEFA Champions League Finals in 2018 and 2019, winning the
latter. He also finished as the league's joint-top goalscorer in the 2018–19 season, winning
the Premier League Golden Boot. Mané then helped end Liverpool's 30 year league title drought by
winning the 2019–20 Premier League. In October 2021 he scored his 100th Premier League goal,
becoming the third African to reach the landmark.
At international level, Mané has registered 29 goals in 89 appearances for Senegal since his debut
in 2012, and currently ranks as his nation's joint-record goalscorer, and tied for third in all-time
appearances. He represented Senegal at the 2012 Olympics, as well as
the 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021 editions of the Africa Cup of Nations. In the 2019 tournament, Mané
helped Senegal to a runners-up finish, and a year later, was named African Footballer of the Year.
[8]
 In the 2021 final, Mané scored the winning kick in the penalty shoot-out to give Senegal their first
Africa Cup of Nations title and he was also named the Player of the tournament.[9] Mané also
represented his nation at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, in their second ever appearance in the
competition. Mané was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by New
African magazine in 2020.[10]

Contents

 1Club career

o 1.1Early career

o 1.2Metz

o 1.3Red Bull Salzburg

o 1.4Southampton

 1.4.12014–15 season

 1.4.22015–16 season

o 1.5Liverpool

 1.5.12016–17 season

 1.5.22017–18 season
  1.5.32018–19 season

 1.5.42019–20 season

 1.5.52020–21 season

 1.5.62021–22 season

 2International career

 3Style of play

 4Community and philanthropy

 5Personal life

 6Career statistics

o 6.1Club

o 6.2International

 7Honours

 8References

 9External links

Club career
Early career
Mané was born in Bambali, Sédhiou, Senegal.[11] He pursued a career in football despite his father
who was an imam forbidding him from playing the sport as a child;[12] however, his father died when
he was seven years old. He later escaped his home village and went to Dakar at age 15 to pursue
his ambition of becoming a footballer, since then he was supported by his family to fulfill his
potential.[11]
In 2009, when playing in M'Bour, he was spotted by scouts and later referred to Génération Foot,
where he helped them to promote to the second division in the 2010–11 season.[11][13]

Metz
In 2011, Mané joined Metz which had a partnership with Génération Foot.[13] He made his
professional debut on 14 January 2012, coming on as a substitute for Kévin Diaz in the 75th minute
of a 0–1 home defeat against Bastia in Ligue 2.[14] He made 19 appearances in his first league
season, 12 as a starter, and scored a solitary goal in a 2–5 loss to Guingamp at the Stade Saint-
Symphorien on 4 May.[15] Metz were relegated to the Championnat National at the end of the season.