Sadio Mané is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays for Liverpool and the Senegal national team. He began his professional career with Ligue 2 club Metz, before joining Red Bull Salzburg in 2012. Mané then moved to Premier League side Southampton for a club record fee of £11. 8 million. He set a new Premier League record for the fastest hat-trick, scored in 176 seconds in a 6–1 win over Aston Villa in 2015. He signed for Liverpool in 2016, and helped them reach back-to-back UEFA Champions League Finals in 2018 and 2019. In the 2019 iteration, Mané helped Senegal to a runners-up finish, and a year later, was named African Footballer
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Sadio Mané is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays for Liverpool and the Senegal national team. He began his professional career with Ligue 2 club Metz, before joining Red Bull Salzburg in 2012. Mané then moved to Premier League side Southampton for a club record fee of £11. 8 million. He set a new Premier League record for the fastest hat-trick, scored in 176 seconds in a 6–1 win over Aston Villa in 2015. He signed for Liverpool in 2016, and helped them reach back-to-back UEFA Champions League Finals in 2018 and 2019. He finished as the league’s joint-top goalscorer in the 2018–19 season, winning the Premier League Golden Boot. In the 2019 iteration, Mané helped Senegal to a runners-up finish, and a year later, was named African Footballer of the Year. He represented Senegal at the 2012 Olympics, as well as the 2015 and 2017 editions of the Africa Cup of Nations. At international level, he has registered 21 goals in 71 appearances for Senegal since his debut in 2012, and currently ranks as his nation’s third all-time top goalscoreer, and joint sixth all- time for appearances. He also represented his nation at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, in their second ever appearance in the competition. He was named Best FIFA Men’s Player for the 2019 Ballon d’Or, and in the award for the Best FIFA men’s Player he ranked fifth in 2019 and fourth in 2020.
He has also been named in the FIFA World XI for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and the 2014 European Champions League squad for the European Championships in Brazil. He is a member of Senegal’s national football team, and has represented his country at the 2014 and 2016 African Cups of Nations, and at the 2016 and 2018 World Cup finals in Brazil and the 2018 African World Cup. He played his first game for Metz in January 2012, coming on as a substitute for Kévin Diaz in the 75th minute of a 0–1 home defeat against Bastia. He made 19 appearances in his first league season, 12 as a starter, and scored a solitary goal in a 2–5 loss to Guingamp at the Stade Saint-Symphorien on 4 May. On 31 August 2012, he moved to Austrian Bundesliga side Red Bull salzburg for the third biggest transfer fee that FC Metz had ever received. The fee was believed to be €4 million, and he scored his first hat-Trick in a 3–1 away win at Kalsdorf in the third round of the Austrian Cup. At the end of August 2014 Mané forced a transfer out of the club, by not coming to the most important game for Salzberg to qualify for the Champions League. On 1 September 2014, he signed a four-year contract with Southampton. He scored two late goals in three successive matches against Crystal Palace, Chelsea and Arsenal, and won the penalty for Southampton’s first goal of the game.
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