Sadio Mane has sent 300 Liverpool shirts to his home town in Senegal for fans to wear amid Saturday’s Champions League last against Real Madrid. The Liverpool forward – part of a fearsome bleeding edge close by Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino – anticipates that Bambali will come to a standstill as the 2 000 occupants all stop to watch him play in the European masterpiece.
In 2005 a 13-year-old Mane wound up in a comparative position as the town ended up watching Liverpool’s renowned 2005 Champions League last triumph over AC Milan and the 26-year-old would like to have the capacity to come back to Bambali, where his family still live, with a victor’s decoration.
“In the event that you had said then I would play the last I would state it is something unfathomable in my life. Ideally we will win,” he said. “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 in the town. I purchased 300 Liverpool shirts to send to the general population in the town, so the fans can wear to watch the last.”
Mane has clear recollections of the 2005 last, when Liverpool fought once more from 3-0 down to beat Milan. “I recollect AC Milan v Liverpool. Three-nil down, at that point 3-3 and punishments. This was a major memory for me,” Mane said. “I was viewing in my town. I was not supporting Liverpool right now. I was a Barcelona fan.”