The Senegalese soccer star Sadio Mane - a professional in Liverpool - has become an example of loyalty to the people of his village in which he grew up, so that after he won the award for best player in Africa last year for 2019, he was sad for not traveling to celebrate the first title in its history.
Mani, 27, grew up in a small village called Sidio, located on the Casamance River in southern Senegal. He was born in 1992 to a family interested in the Islamic call where his father was the imam of the village mosque.
Global media interest in Mani increased after his brilliance with Liverpool and crowned him as the best in Africa, and the French channel "Canal Plus" monitored some aspects of his life in a documentary film "Made in Senegal".
In the film, Mani narrated the story of his father’s death in 1999, describing it as a major stab, by saying that he received the news of the death at the age of only seven years, as he was playing on the street and his brother told him of the death of their father because of suffering from stomach pains, and he was transferred to a remote hospital, as there were no Hospitals in their village.
After about 19 years, Mani did not forget his father's death due to the lack of a hospital in his village, so he built a village hospital, and also built a mosque and renovated the old school in it, in order to contribute to making life better for future generations in his hometown, in addition to his continuous financial support to the poor.
Mani's father was denied the opportunity to be buried in his hometown because of the presence of an insurgency in the country at the time that prevented his transfer, and he was buried near the hospital where he died.
Despite the death of his father nearly two decades ago, he was influenced by his morals as the imam of the village mosque, and he became one of the most modest stars despite the fact that he reached the top of African football and became one of the elite stars of the world in the round witch.