Édouard Mendy vs Khalilou Fadiga
Senegal against Senegal. The almanac states its case, the crowd votes, you decide.
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.
Khalilou Fadiga
Senegal · 1998–2005 · CM
- Almanac rating
- 84
- Rank in Senegal
- #7 of 33
- Caps
- 37 · 4 goals
- Clubs
- Lommel SK, Club Brugge K.V., AJ Auxerre
Inter's doctors found the heart defect in 2003, and a year later he collapsed at the Reebok before a Carling Cup tie with Tottenham, took an implanted defibrillator and played again by 2005. Runner-up at the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations and a World Cup quarter-finalist that summer, he won the Belgian double with Club Brugge in 1998, the 2003 Coupe de France with Auxerre, and a place in the 2000 AFCON Team of the Tournament. Career record: 37 caps and 4 goals for Senegal; club career at Lommel SK, Club Brugge K.V., AJ Auxerre.
The verdict
The almanac puts Édouard Mendy ahead by 2 rating points, 86 against 84.
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