For the second time in his carreer, Sadio Mané has been named the best African footballer of the year. In Senegal, where the soccer player is born thirty years ago, the 'silent, smiling assassin' is mainly known as a sober do-gooder.
For De Volkskrant, I wrote a profile about the shy but generous soccer player, who has transformed Bambaly - from the millions he makes, hundreds of thousands of euros went into the village he grew up in, in the south of Senegal. You can read the piece by clicking or tapping here (in Dutch).