The viral post that caught my eye showed Mané carrying a cracked iPhone and included a quote from him explaining his approach to wealth. (The quote was not in response to being asked about the cracked iPhone, but it makes a nice visual).
Mané said in an interview-
Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches, or two planes? What will these objects do for me and for the world? I was hungry, and I had to work in the field; I survived hard times, played football barefooted, I did not have an education and many other things, but today with what I earn thanks to football, I can help my people. I built schools, a stadium, we provide clothes, shoes, food for people who are in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people in a very poor region of Senegal which contributes to their family economy. I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips and even planes. I prefer that my people receive a little of what life has given me”
He’s sincere about that. Mané has paid for a hospital to be built as well—a project he funded because his father had died when Mané was a child because there was no hospital in their village. Last summer, he also returned to Senegal on vacation to check up on a school he is building in his home village of Bambali.
Mané’s attitude toward his wealth and his choice to spend his money to help others are so refreshing. People are free to do what they want with their money, of course, and it’s not like Mané never splurges. But he tries to stay humble. In a world with such extremes of poverty and wealth, seeing someone attempt to balance the scales voluntarily does a heart good. Imagine a society where every millionaire or billionaire were as detached from material things and as generous with what they have as Sadio Mané. While individuals aren’t responsible for public welfare, imagine the wide range of good they could do nonetheless.
पश्चिम अफ्रिका के विश्वप्रसिद्ध फुटबॉल खिलाड़ी 27 वर्षीय “सादिओ माने सेनेगल” की कमाई भारतीय रुपयों में गिनें तो प्रति सप्ताह 1 करोड़ 40 लाख रुपये है,इन्हें कई जगह पर टूटे हुए फोन के साथ देखा गया हैं।।
एक इंटरव्यू में जब उनसे उसके बारे में पूछा गया तो उन्होंने कहा मैं उसे ठीक करवा लूंगा,जब उनसे पूछा गया कि आप नया क्यों नही ले लेते,तब उन्होंने कहा मैं ऐसे हजार खरीद सकता हूँ, 10 फरारी , 2 जेट प्लेन , डायमंड घड़ियां खरीद सकता हूँ।। लेकिन मुझे ये सब क्यों चाहिए ?
मैंने गरीबी देखी है मैं पढ़ नही पाया उस वजह से,मैंने स्कूल्स बनवाये हैं ताकि लोग पढ़ पाए,मेरे पास जूते नही थे, मैं बिना जूतों के खेलता था,अच्छे कपड़े नही थे,खाने को नही था।। आज मुझे इतना कुछ मिला है तो मैं उसका दिखावा करने के बजाए मैं उसे अपने लोगों के साथ बांटना चाहता हूं।………………
Sadio Mane’s story: How I went from torn boots and shorts on Senegal’s streets to a Liverpool sensation:-
“He asked me ‘are you here for the test?’ I said I was. He asked me, ‘with those boots? Look at them. How can you play in them?’. They were bad, really bad – torn and old. Then he said, ‘and with those shorts? You don’t even have proper football shorts?’
“I told him what I came with was the best I had, and I only wanted to play – to show myself. When I got on the pitch, you could see the surprise on his face.
“He came to me and said ‘I’m picking you straight away. You’ll play in my team.’ After those trials, I went to the academy.”
I missed my family so much, missed being with my mum and my sisters. But to be a footballer is all I wanted and I knew these
tough days were to help me achieve that.
Mane was born on the 10th day of April 1992 in Sedhiou, Senegal. Sadio Mane grew up in the small village of Bambali, deep in the south of Senegal.
While growing up, he lived with his uncle, as his parents had lots of children and could not meet up financially with his basic needs.
“My parents never had money to send me to school,” he recalled. “Every morning and evening, I would always go to play football with my friend in the streets.
When I was young, I only thought about the Premier League which I watched on TV. Only Premier League. It was a big dream for me.”
Since I was two or three years old, I remember always being with the ball. I would see kids playing on the street, and would join them.
That is how I started – just on the roads. When I got older, I would go to watch games, especially when the national team played. I wanted to see my heroes and imagine myself as them”
According to Mane,
“After the WorldCup, I and my friends started having a tournament in our village, I became more and more determined to be the best and win every game.
Everyone would tell me I was the best in the village, but my family wasn’t a footballing one. They are big on religion and wanted different things for me.
When they could see that in my head and my heart there was only football, I started to convince them, especially my uncle to let me off the village to a local town to learn more before going to the main Dakar City, my country’s capital”.
In the beginning, they never accept it, but the more they saw how much he wanted it and that there was nothing else for him, they helped me.
His uncle and parents sold all crops produce from their farms to raise money for Mane.
Sadio Mane’s talent was so obvious and inspiring, even people who didn’t know Mane pulled together to ensure he had the best possible shot at pursuing his only passion.
Mane Continued…,
“My uncle was the biggest help, but not the only one at the start, almost everyone in my village contributed monies for me.
When I moved to Dakar’s suburbs, I went to live with a family that I didn’t even know. I only offered them a few monies and explained my motive before they allowed me in.
Although, my family knew someone who knew them, and he took me to their house at first. They took me in, they took care of me and did everything to help me just worry about football.”
According to him, “When I arrived there on the next day, I saw lots of boys being tested for entry into the team. I will never forget this, and it is funny now, but when I went to try it out there, an older man looked at me like I was in the wrong place.
He asked me ‘are you here for the test?’ I said I was. He asked me, ‘with those boots? He Looks at them angrily. How can you play in them?’. They were bad, really bad – torn and old. Then he said, ‘and with those shorts? You don’t even have proper football shorts?”
“I told him what I came with was the best I had, and I only wanted to play – to show myself. When I got on the pitch, you could see the surprise on his face.
He came to me and said ‘I’m picking you straight away. You’ll play in my team.’ After those trials, I went to the local team’s academy.”
Early Life in France:
Sadio has revealed that he didn’t even tell his parents he was leaving Senegal prior to launching his career in France.
This was because his family were earlier sceptical about his dream of making it as a professional footballer. He planned to give them a big surprise. So Mane, who was 19 at the time, decided to keep his move to Metz quiet.
His mum Satou still thought he was at the Generation Foot Academy in Dakar when he called to say he was in Europe in 2011. “I only told my uncle. Even my mum, she didn’t know,”mane
“I remember the first day I got there, to France. I was supposed to train but the coach said ‘stay at home and I didn’t have any credit on my phone card to call my mum.
The next day I went with some of my friends who were already at Metz to buy some cards. I called her and said: Hello Mama, ‘I’m in France.”
“‘Which France?’ she said. She couldn’t believe it! I said: ‘France in Europe.’ ‘What do you mean Europe? You live in Senegal.’ I said: ‘No I’m in Europe.’
She was amazed, it was crazy! Again, She was so surprised and she’d call me every day to ask if it was true.
She still didn’t believe me until I told her to go watch me on the TV. She finally did and observed my dream had come true.”
“My mother never watches my football, because it’s so emotional,” he added. “She can’t watch football when I’m playing. She always gets afraid of someone injuring me.”
Homes Attacked by Angry Fans:
Sadio Mane’s home has once fallen under attack by angry fans after he missed a vital penalty at his country’s nations cup match.
The £34million winger fluffed his spot-kick to send Senegal out of the Africa Cup of Nations. His relatives fled his house in Malika, near the capital Dakar when it was targeted following the country’s quarter-final exit to rivals Cameroon.
They wouldn’t just forgive him even after crying after the miss and also apologizing to his country people.
Despite attacking his house, Thugs also threatened his relatives again at his uncle’s mansion house and trashed a £26,000 SUV that Mane bought for him.
A source said: “They turned their fury on the car and completely trashed it”. It didn’t long before soldiers and policemen started giving Mane’s family full 24-hour protection.
Sadio Mane is a devout Muslim. He has mentioned that he comes from a religious family in Senegal and so he has been asked how often they went to church when he was a child. ‘I am Muslim,’ he says, still laughing, ‘I don’t go to church.’
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