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Senegal · 1998–2005 · CM
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.
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 7 rating points, 91 against 84.
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