A few days ago, Mane's transfer from Liverpool to Bayern was settled, and he will return to the journey after six years of red army career. In an interview with the media, Mane mentioned his teammate Wang Chu, who did not hesitate to praise him, saying that he was the most technical player in the youth team.
Many Chinese fans know the name Mane because of a silly photo. Chinese media outlets photographed Wang Chu when they interviewed him. Now, 10 years later, the stupid boy Mane has gone from a poor town of 1,000 people to the top of the world.
Poverty was mane's weakness, but it also became his strongest armor. Some fans call Mane "Fire King Kong, Smoke too old", in fact, it is love and persistence that makes him omnipotent, and also allows Mane to leave a softness in his heart to repay this beautiful world.
Step out of a forgotten corner of the world
Mane was born in Séjú, Senegal, and Séjú is almost the poorest town in the country, and Mane's village, Bambali, is the poorest in Séjú. There are less than 1,000 people here, and most of the adults go out to work, leaving only the elderly and children, and the hardships of survival can be seen.
Mane grew up in a family of 10, and his childhood was devoid of toy cars and playgrounds, only trash, expired food, and a gasless soccer ball.
The Manees were often barefoot, kicking broken balls on gravel-filled roads. As they grew older, the family pooled their money to send Mane to school dozens of kilometers away, because the school there did not charge money. He ran to the school every day and practiced super physical fitness.
In addition to playing football as a child, one of Mane's hobbies was reading old newspapers, so why not be new? Because there is no here. For example, the French team won the 2000 European Championship, but maybe at that time, Mane, saw the content of the newspaper 98 World Cup, and the French team had just qualified from the group.
This is not a paragraph, it is the real life of Mane. When the Senegalese national team made a splash in Japan and South Korea in 2002, the people of Bambali did not know the national team's outstanding performance even more than half a year later. Isn't there a TV here? Yes, that year, there was even full power here.
These old newspapers are often found in the garbage heaps on the street. Mane begged his family to let him go to the big city for football training, and his mother said: We don't have any money. His uncle told him: This is the forgotten corner of the world, we are the forgotten people of the world, give up those unrealistic dreams.
(Pictured) After Mane became famous, he returned to the mud where he played as a child to play a charity game, and the situation on the scene can be seen
Mane had never trained in football until he was 15 years old, and most of all he watched football highlights on TV from the village's east head commissary, where he met the African legend Drogba who played for Chelsea.
Unable to overcome his restless heart and dreams, Mane secretly carried his family behind his back at the age of 15, and even made up lies to borrow money from the villagers and came to Dakar, the capital of Senegal.
During the trial, he wore patched soccer boots and a pair of strange pants, which were ridiculed and despised by many people. But when the football reached his feet, everyone put away their contemptuous smiles, only full of surprise and awe. After successfully passing the trial, Mane joined the prestigious Generation Football Academy.
A fierce man who bows and holds a knife in Japanese style
Big platforms have big opportunities, and every year, a large number of European scouts come to Africa to select talents. Because Senegal was once a French colony and the official language here is French, French clubs come here all year round to select people. For example, the former national team hero Diouf landed in France first and then went to the world.
Mane was unfortunate and fortunate, as many of his team-mates, including Diafra Saco, who now plays at West Ham, were not chosen until the age of 19. He did not even dare to consult with his family, for fear that his mother would not agree to his going abroad and came directly to France.
The high-rise buildings and luxury cars here amazed Mane, and he couldn't believe that there was such a place in the world. He called his family, and his mother was half-convinced: Which France? Are you sure you're the same France in Europe now, and haven't you been deceived?
Mane's arrival in the team became a joke, and his French with a strong local accent made his teammates and coaches laugh. But Mane remembered his mother's words, we are small place people, if you want to gain respect, you must first learn to be polite and respectful of others. So everyone who has just arrived in the team, whether it is a coach, a teammate, or a cleaning staff, will clasp their pants with both hands and bow deeply at 90 degrees.
Former teammate Wang Chu revealed such a thing: Mane just came to U19 when it was winter, the first time the whole team trained, just after heavy snow, minus ten degrees, Mane wore short sleeves to the stadium, was frozen and could not move, could not speak, until the manager gave him a pair of gloves, barely began training.
Wang Chu also said: Every exercise during training, Mane can't understand, the coach asked to run to the left, he ran to the right, asked to pass the low flat ball, he picked up the ball, at that time everyone said: Why can't you find someone who can't play?
Coupled with the lack of communication, many people think that Mane is just a stupid kid with a bad brain, but in the first week of the friendly race to U19, Mane let everyone know himself again.
The expression of Wang Chu, who witnessed it, was the most direct: I played the ball for such a long time, grew so big, never met anyone, accelerated so fast, he could accelerate again after accelerating, at that time I knew that he had something, but no one could have imagined that he would reach this height in the future.
Media person Jiang Sihan was interviewing Wang Chu and other foreign players in Ligue 1, and he also recorded the intersection with Mane. In addition to the standard 90-degree bow, he also asked the Chinese reporter to take a picture of himself, hoping to show it to his mother, and finally carefully asked: Isn't it for a fee?
Mane looked back on the years with some palpitations, saying: "I was scared because the coach told me that if I didn't play well, I would be eliminated, and then I had to go back to Bambali.
Mane spares no effort on the pitch, is also a fierce man off the court, and has a strong sense of self-esteem under his calm and generous smile.
Or the narration of Wang Chu, who witnessed it firsthand: Mane looked particularly honest and shy, but he was actually a very, very personal person, because his French had a strong country accent, and once when he was eating in the canteen, there were several Senegalese players (Koulibaly and Sacco were also in Metz at the time) imitating and laughing at his accent, and as a result, Mane jumped directly to the table in front of all the players, picked up the knife that was eating, put it directly on the neck of one of the players, and said: You say it again, I will kill you. From then on, no one dared to laugh at Mane.
Rocket-like surge, unstoppable Mane
Once people have a strong motivation as a support, they will definitely have a better future. Mane was like this, although he only represented Metz alone in the Ligue 2 league for one season, his excellent performance quickly attracted the attention of many clubs.
At the last minute of the summer of 2012, The Austrian Giants Salzburg giants bought Mane for 4 million euros, the third highest transfer price in the history of metz clubs. Many were still wondering why substitutes in a Relegated Team in Ligue 2 could sell for such a high price, and Mane's performance quickly gave the answer.
In The Austrian big-handed Mane, became the team's big killer. His trident with Soriano and Alain was invincible. Mane's quick agility and calmness in front of the door made it hard to believe he was just a 20-year-old. In his two seasons here, he contributed 42 goals and 28 assists. During this period, Dortmund and many other Bundesliga clubs had intentions of Senegalese, but they were directly rejected by the club.
After two years in Austria, Mane sought a transfer rejection and then opted for the most extreme way to ask for his departure: outright absence from training and refusal to participate in the Champions League qualification round. In desperation, the club sold him to Southampton in the Premier League for 15 million euros.
Coming to the extremely fast-paced Premier League, Mane did not disagree and directly entered the state. The British tabloids had long tracked Down Mane to see if the African would be like some players, obsessed with England's drunken fans. But they soon found out that Mane didn't go anywhere but to go home, and he wouldn't even attend the party held by some of his teammates.
What was Mane's life in England? It's three things: practice by yourself, watch the game, and learn the language. When he first arrived in Southampton, he didn't even have a family member to accompany him, but he didn't feel bored and bored at all.
In the first season of the Premier League, in a 6-1 win over Aston Villa, Mane scored a hat-trick in just 2 minutes and 56 seconds, breaking liverpool star Robbie Fowler's fastest hat-trick of 4 minutes and 33 seconds against Arsenal in 1994.
The British television media once described Mane's hat-trick this way: When you were about to replay the first goal, the second goal came, and you were still thinking, whether to play the second or first goal first, Mane broke the goal again!
British Lightning, unsung hero
After another two years, Mane finally entered the big club and joined the Reds Liverpool. Coach Klopp stressed about the signing: I was just correcting a mistake because I missed Mane when I was at Dortmund.
Reds fans were initially worried about whether Mane would become the second Diouf. Duouf, who has been called "the worst signing in the history of the team's Premier League" by fans, is not only extremely inefficient, but also constantly causing trouble on and off the field.
In his first season at Anfield, Mane conquered the fans. In addition to 13 goals and 5 assists, Mane, who was active on the right, ran tirelessly, running selflessly for his teammates to run out of the offensive slot. No wonder Klopp once said: Every time I see Mane on the training ground, it is a very happy and happy thing, which is not only my feelings, I think it is also the whole team.
(Pictured) Mane's Premier League debut impressed Klopp, and Wenger was helpless
In his first season, Mane was named the best player in both player and fan voting. Subsequently, when Salah arrived, Mane's position was changed from the habitual right to the left, unchanged by efficient goals and positive running, at which point he fully became the team's thigh.
In the 2017-2018 Champions League final, Salah left the field with a serious injury, and after Karius's bizarre mistake, it was Mane who stood up, and his goal once helped the team equalize, but unfortunately was unable to reverse the final defeat.
From where to fall, from where to get up, the second year of the final defeat, Liverpool made a comeback, the final against Tottenham, Mane 22 seconds to create a penalty, help Salah break the goal, and finally the team won the Champions League.
It was also the year that Mane made 50 appearances throughout the season, scoring 22 goals in the Premier League and sharing the Golden Boot with Salah and Aubameyang.
Although Mane and Salah have a very good personal relationship, they are often compared by critics and fans, and the public is not concerned about the professional problems of tactics, but whether the two people are incompatible because of their position and firing rights. As a result, occasionally some disputes on the field will always be used by the media to make a big fuss.
On the other hand, successful shooters are selfish, and if they don't even believe in themselves, how can they help the team move forward. It must be seen that Mane made great sacrifices during his six years at Liverpool, changing his position from the right to the left and then to the middle after Diaz's arrival.
Statistically, in Liverpool's 6 years, Mane played 269 games for the team, scoring 120 goals and 48 assists, helping the team to win a Grand Slam, no wonder Sky Sports called it: the low-key unsung hero of the Klopp era.
There is no feast in the world, and the reasons for the 30-year-old Mane's decision to leave Liverpool are various, some people say that he is not satisfied with the club taking the lead in talking to Salah about the contract extension, and some people say that his lion's wide-open asking price makes the club unable to meet.
Regardless, Mane left.
Off the football field: low desire, low requirements, love to donate money
Compared with the colorful off-court life of African-American players such as Balotelli and Pogba, the days outside the Manet Stadium are boring, he does not like luxury cars, watches, and bar game consoles. His standard of living is extremely low.
In the 2019-2020 season, Liverpool visited Leicester City, and when they arrived at the stadium before the game, a photo of Mane attracted attention. In the photo, Mane's mobile phone is dilapidated, the mobile phone film has been broken, and the dead corners on the corners are cocked.
It is hard to imagine that a Premier League superstar with an annual income of more than 30 million pounds, with a week's salary, can buy 200 of the latest Apple, and actually use such a mobile phone.
After the photo went viral online, it even alarmed the hostess Linda, who then retweeted the report on social media and wrote: "It will make the club pay attention" and @ liverpool's official account. After that, Mane's phone was not replaced until teammate Wijnaldum gave him an iPhone11, and Senegal threw away the old phone and took a video thanking the Dutchman: free is fantastic!
In an interview with the British media, the reporter was curious, Mane's favorite car brand? His response was: Why should I buy 20 diamond watches, 10 Ferraris, or a mansion? None of this stuff does anything to me or the world, I don't like to show off, and I don't have to show off.
It soon became apparent that Mane was definitely not a miser. In his hometown of Bambali and many poor areas, he financed the construction of schools and stadiums. In particular, in senegal's many extremely poor areas, Mane promised to help each person for 70 euros a day until they could get out of poverty and live a normal life.
According to British media statistics, Mane's annual investment in charity is close to 15 million pounds, which is almost half of his income, and the total investment in the hospital he built for his hometown is more than 1 million pounds. Unique in world football.
In Senegal, Mane is a veritable national hero, and when he was named African Footballer of the Year, the people of Senegal celebrated as if they were celebrating the New Year, singing and dancing and laughing.
Not only that, but Mane also hopes to join more people in his charitable actions. He would take some pictures and share them with the media and teammates. He said: "I know what it's like to not have enough to eat, I've tasted the hardships of working in the fields, I've been blindsided, sarcastic, and even bullied, I've survived a difficult time and am now a footballer, and my income can help a lot of people."
During the Africa Cup of Nations, in Senegal's 2-0 win over Cape Verde, Mane was substituted for concussion and was immediately taken to the local hospital for treatment. There was a boy in the hospital who had been hit by a motorcycle, and the condition was so severe that the boy's life was in danger, but his family could not afford to pay for the medical treatment. Mane found the boy's grieving family. Immediately gave the other party all the medical expenses, and the boy escaped from danger smoothly.
Mane is a grateful man, and even when he comes across some Asian-faced media outlets when Liverpool is a hit, he always asks: Are you Chinese? When he gets a positive answer, he will greet him warmly in Chinese: Hello! Then ask if you need help. Later, Mane revealed that when I was in Metz, I had 6 or 7 Chinese teammates around me, all of whom were friends, and they helped me a lot.
Mane still has no girlfriend, and the gossip media found that there is only one female companion around him all year round, that is, his mother. For the women who often greetEd Mane on social media, Mane simply cut off everyone's retreat: I will not find a girlfriend on the Internet.
Rushing to a new journey: those who work hard will not have bad luck
The more people who have experienced the wind and rain, the more they know how to keep a low profile, and the more people who do not understand the world, the more they open their teeth and claws. Mane's low profile is natural, peaceful and indisputable. But not for the sake of low and low, he understood that deliberately too low, is to pretend to be forced. So after 6 years, he started a new challenge.
After Mane decided to leave Liverpool and move to Bayern Munich, the Reds went from manager to teammate to fan, just thanks and blessings. In 6 years, Mane has left too many good memories in Anfield,
Carragher's testimonial represents the inner feelings of most Liverpool fans. He said: "Mane was my favourite Liverpool player of the day and he ended up leaving. Low consumption and outstanding performance, never hurt. Titles and goals are countless. A true Liverpool legend, thank you, Mane. ”
The 30-year-old Mane is still very young, he still has a great future to pursue, and he has the motivation to keep running. After the renewal of Liverpool, under the leadership of Uncle Scum, they will continue to move forward and never go alone. It's just hard to accept that this summer, the fairy tale of Mane and Liverpool is really over.
A few years ago, when Mane was not yet popular, Wang Chu affirmed in an interview: No matter what Mane's future holds, even if he becomes the World Footballer of the Year, he will not change, he is Mane!
In fact, from asking a Chinese reporter to take a picture of him, to now rushing to the Bundesliga with a Grand Slam, Mane, who is hard-hearted, hard-working, patient, and willing to help others, has not changed.
The hard-working people will not have bad luck, and Mane deserves a better future.