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Oct
Sadio Mane has received France Football’s inaugural Socrates Award, in recognition of his charity work in his native Senegal. Mane, 30, is accustomed to writing headlines on the pitch, but it’s his continued efforts off it that are making the biggest difference. The Bayern Munich forward has built a public hospital and funded schools and families in his home village of Bambali in recent years, and also donated to the Senegalese National Committee to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic. “The Socrates Prize identifies the best social initiative by committed champions,” said a statement from France Football magazine, which added the humanitarian award…