He's been called the nicest guy in world football, a pay-it-forward kind of person who uses the riches he’s made in top-flight soccer to help uplift the country where he grew up.
“Why would I want 10 Ferraris, 20 diamond watches or two planes?” Sadio Mané says. “What will these objects do for me and the world?”
The 29-year-old Liverpool and Senegal star has donated millions to help his people – and the mayor of the region where he was born recently honoured him by naming a stadium after him.