Newly Wed Sadio Mane eager to retain AFCON trophy
Few days after marrying his long time hearthrobe 19 year old Aisha Tamba, Senegal Captain Sadio Mane has spoken of his team’s desire to retain the AFCON title they won at the last edition in Cameroon.
The Senegalese icon married his alleged long-term partner in a ceremony believed to have taken place on January 7 in Keur Massar, an area of the capital city of Dakar.
The relationship is believed to have been kept secret until their wedding earlier this week, although friends, family and former teammates were reportedly in attendance.
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The former Liverpool striker is preparing for the start of the AFCON, with the defending champion team arriving at the tournament in the Ivory Coast.
Sadio Mane and his 19 year old wife Aisha Tamba all dressed in white.
After the discreet ceremony, in which the bride and groom all dressed in white, Mane admitted that receiving so many congratulations left him very happy before the start of the competition.
Sadio Mane has spoken for the first time since marrying his wife Aisha Tamba, insisting that Senegal will do everything possible to retain the AFCON title.
“Honestly, I’m happy with the fact that the president congratulated me as much as, well, I would say not just my teammates,” he said late Tuesday.
“I think all the people have congratulated me and wished me (luck), so I’m happy and I hope everything turns out well.”
Mane and Senegal arrived in Ivory Coast for AFCON on Tuesday night to finalize their preparations for the competition.
The Teranga Lions have been drawn in a group containing two of their closest neighbors, as Mane alluded to.
They will open their title defense against Gambia, a nation that is almost completely surrounded by Senegal, and will begin on Monday in the political capital of Yamoussoukro.
Mane and company will then take on traditional side Cameroon on January 19, before another local derby with southern neighbor Guinea on January 23, both clashes also in Yamoussoukro.
“We are also aware of everything that awaits us,” said the 31-year-old before the tournament.
‘We know it won’t be easy but what is certain is that we will achieve it, we will do everything we can and everything on our side to make ourselves proud and above all everyone’s dream, that is, to keep the title and that is what we are going for. to try to do.
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‘I think, above all, that the first game will be very decisive. Then, as you said, of the big teams, Gambia and Guinea are derbies, also Cameroon, which needs no introduction, but we are also Senegal. “We are going to try to do our best.”
The player was left out of his team’s recent 1-0 win over Niger, needing a 99th-minute winner, although former international El Hadji Diouf was quick to insist there was “a reason” for his omission and that there was no cause for concern.
“I think today everyone knows what is happening and Sadio’s life, now as I said, if Sadio is not there, there is definitely a reason and everything we told him at the national stadium and good luck,” said the former Liverpool man. said the striker.
Aisha was born in Casamance, a city on the border with Bambali, the town where Mane is from and where he has donated money for the construction of a hospital.
Mane’s charity has been well reported and the striker has frequently donated money to the area where he grew up.
He has also provided funds for a mosque, a school, a gas station and has provided learning materials to students in his community, the Bayo News Network Reports.
Mane as a man of his word had made a promise to marry Tamba from the very day they started dating, which was during his Liverpool career.