Sadio Mane has uncovered he has purchased 300 Liverpool shirts to send back to his old home town for fans to wear amid the Champions League last on Saturday. The Reds forward was living in Banbali in south Senegal in 2005 when Liverpool last won in the last of the opposition, against AC Milan in Istanbul.
Mane watched that match, which Liverpool won on punishments after a sensational 3-3 draw, and he anticipates that the town will be stuck to TV screens this end of the week when his side face Real Madrid in Kiev. With that in mind, he has sent some shirts back to Banbali to enable drum to up some additional help.
“In the event that you’d said I would play in the last, I’d say that is something staggering in my life,” he said. “Ideally we will win. My family still live in the town – my mum and my uncle. “They are for the most part going to watch. There are 2,000 individuals in the town. I purchased 300 Liverpool pullovers to send to them, so the fans can wear them to watch the last. I will backpedal in the late spring after the World Cup and – ideally – I will indicate everybody a champ’s decoration.”
Liverpool’s triumph 13 years prior was a standout amongst the most paramount in the opposition’s history, with Rafael Benitez’s side battling once again from a 3-0 half-time deficiency to assert the trophy.