Sadio Mané, played football under a flood and with a field full of mud.
If there is something that characterizes Sadio Mané, besides being one of the best players in the worldand the modesty he keeps Whenever he returns to his country, he spends time with those people who have been with him all his life. After winning the trophy for the Africa Cup of Nations, beating Mohamed Salah’s Egypt on penalties, he was pleasantly welcomed in his country and with a tribute party. Climatic conditions did not accompany and the field was full of mud.
The Senegalese, who after having decided it has not yet defined his future not renew with Liverpoolreturned to his roots and played a match with El Hadji Diouf, a former footballer Senegalese. The hit the flood the city of Sedhiou and generated that the court in which the match was playing tribute turn into pure clay, which made the game difficult.
But Mané, who with his presence at the Qatar 2022 World Cup managed to bring the Senegalese national team to the ecumenical event for the second time in a row, didn’t care and showed his game even on a humble field in the presence of several fans who went to see him. There he looked with the ten.
And this moment immediately brought to mind the world champion Diego Armando Maradona. Two similar moments, being that both people had enormous humility and were recognized all over the world, played in the mud. Diego I did it one afternoon 1985 in the municipality of Acerra, Italy.
Diego Maradona, in 1985, played a charity match on a muddy pitch
Maradona had arrived at Napoli a short time ago but generated a great movement in the southern Italian club. The club received a call for help from a family in that city who needed help to do so save your child’s life. They asked for it in the mythical san paolo stadium of which today it bears the name Diego Armando Maradona Stadiuma charity party is held for your child who following a malformation of the palate which caused facial atrophy.
The club, through its president Corrado Ferlaino, Napoli decided not to help this family who was desperately looking for help. But Diego wasn’t about to let it stay that way. Given the information received on the incident, Maradona put on his boots and decided to keep the game in the village to accompany Luca.
The weather conditions were not the best for that day, but the world starhe decided to play the same on a pitch where mud predominated and it was practically impossible for the match to take place.
Source: Clarin