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The 64th Golden Ball will be presented this Monday, December 2 at a ceremony in Paris. Among the favorites and alongside the usual Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo: several players from Liverpool, winners of the Champions League. Among them, the Senegalese Sadio Mané, who holds the hopes of Africa.
" If you give the Golden Ball to the best player of this generation, always give it to Lionel Messi. If you give it to the best player of last season, it's Virgil van Dijk . It could be a harmless sentence, yet its author is none other than Jürgen Klopp, Liverpool's coach. A clear positioning in favor of his defender, importantissima in the final victory of the Reds in the Champions League. But an opinion that forgets his Senegalese striker: Sadio Mané.
Because in terms of performance in 2019, few players can match the Senegalese international: Champions League with Liverpool, CAN final lost, all with 3 goals in the African Cup and finishing co-top scorer of the championship of England (23 goals).
Successor of Weah or ... Drogba
The regularity of Bambali's boy is indisputable. Its importance also in the collectives of the Reds and Lions of Senegal of which he is one of the captains.
What allow Mané to hope to succeed George Weah, the only Golden Ball for Africa, 24 years ago already? Predictions (and leaks) would consecrate Argentine Lionel Messi ...
Otherwise, the Senegalese can hope to at least match or beat the best African performance of recent years: the 4th place Didier Drogba in 2007. That year, four players on the continent were on the list. There are five this year: Sadio Mané, his compatriot from Naples Kalidou Koulibaly, Egyptian Mohamed Salah, Gabonese Pierre Emeryck Aubameyang and Algerian Ryad Mahrez.
Never has Africa counted so many candidates for the supreme reward, and never has the continent prayed so much to win its second Golden Ball. Verdict: Monday night.
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