Aliou Cissé vs Édouard Mendy
Senegal against Senegal. The almanac states its case, the crowd votes, you decide.
Aliou Cissé
Senegal · 2002–22 · CB
- Almanac rating
- 83
- Rank in Senegal
- #10 of 33
- Caps
- 33 · 0 goals
- Clubs
- Paris Saint-Germain, Birmingham City, Portsmouth
Bamako, 10 February 2002: he walked up for Senegal's fifth penalty in the Africa Cup of Nations final, Alioum Boukar saved it, and Cameroon took the trophy. Twenty years later he was the coach in Yaoundé when Senegal took that title for the first time, in 2021; as a player he captained the side to the 2002 World Cup quarter-finals, and he was named CAF Coach of the Year in 2022. Career record: 33 caps and 0 goals for Senegal; club career at Paris Saint-Germain, Birmingham City, Portsmouth.
Édouard Mendy
Senegal · 2014–25 · GK
- Almanac rating
- 86
- Rank in Senegal
- #4 of 33
- Caps
- 57 · 0 goals
- Clubs
- Stade de Reims, Chelsea, Al Ahli
He was twenty-two in 2014, out of the game after leaving Cherbourg, drawing unemployment benefit in France and looking for work outside football. By 2022 he was an African champion and a European one, with Senegal's Africa Cup of Nations and Chelsea's 2021 Champions League as the first African goalkeeper to lift it, and he added the AFC Champions League Elite with Al-Ahli in 2025 and FIFA's goalkeeper of the year for 2021. Career record: 57 caps and 0 goals for Senegal; club career at Stade de Reims, Chelsea, Al Ahli.
The verdict
The almanac puts Édouard Mendy ahead by 3 rating points, 86 against 83.
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