Soccer-Senegal's Mane living the dream of millions of Africans

FILE PHOTO: Headshot - Senegal - Sadio Mane/File Photo

(Reuters) - Sadio Mane is the embodiment of the dreams of millions of young Africans, emerging from a small village in Senegal to play at the highest level in Europe and become an international icon.

The diminutive attacker defied his family, who did not want him to play soccer, to sneak away from his home village of Bambali to join an academy in the capital Dakar and then catapult his way into club football.