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Bambali is a town in Sédhiou Region, Senegal, located about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south-east of Sédhiou, on the banks of the Casamance River. In 2018, the population was 20,454. [1]
Jun 21, 2022 · Liverpool forward Sadio Mane has transformed his childhood village of Bambali – a village in the south of Senegal – with a number of incredible gestures.
- Jack Kenmare
- Mane had to run away to play football. Perhaps you already know this story, but, as a boy, growing up in a small village called Bambali in Senegal, Sadio Mane's family weren't actually that keen on him kicking a ball about for a living.
- His hero growing up was El Hadji Diouf. Sadio Mane would have been 10 years old when Senegal reached the 2002 World Cup quarter-finals and Africa Cup of Nations final, with a team that included stars like Aliou Cisse, Khalilou Fadiga and El Hadji Diouf.
- The weather in Europe was a shock to the system. Mane left Senegal to join French team FC Metz in 2011. The first thing that he noticed on arrival in France, in January, was the wind.
- Mane made a bad first impression on Jurgen Klopp. In a very candid moment in the documentary, Jurgen Klopp tells us about a bad judgement call he made, as manager of Dortmund, when Mane was introduced to him.
Jun 22, 2021 · Senegal and Liverpool football star Sadio Mane has donated $693,000 (£500,000) to help fund the construction of a hospital in his hometown of Bambali in Senegal. The village, about 400...
Sadio Mané (born 10 April 1992) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr and the Senegal national team.
Feb 7, 2022 · As revealed in the documentary Sadio Mane: Made in Senegal – the ‘Boy from Bambali’ as dubbed by Senegal coach Aliou Cisse – lost his father aged just seven and discovered the heartbreaking...
Nov 12, 2019 · The biggest game of the Premier League season so far is just an hour away and, in Bambali, a village in a remote part of Senegal some 3,000 miles from Anfield, one of Sadio Mane ’s cousins...
