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Senegal · 2002–22 · CB
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.
Senegal · 2015–22 · CAM
Southampton were still goalless against Aston Villa on 16 May 2015 when Mané scored three times in two minutes and fifty-six seconds, and nobody has beaten that Premier League record since. His penalty settled the shootout that made Senegal African champions for the first time in Yaoundé in 2022; before that came the 2019 Champions League with Liverpool and the 2019-20 Premier League, plus African Footballer of the Year in 2019 and 2022. Career record: 130 caps and 55 goals for Senegal; club career at Southampton, Liverpool, Al-Nassr.
The almanac puts Sadio Mané ahead by 8 rating points, 91 against 83.
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