Disappointed with Senegal, Mané to support this team at the World Cup

We reach the key point of the 22nd edition of the World Cup, where the groups and qualifiers to the next round are being defined, where we find teams that have left much to be desired and others that are a question mark. It is valid that the superstars who are not playing choose their favourites, like our Liverpool legend Sadio Mané who, not being with his Lions, has opted for England.

Mané, who played at Anfield from 2016 to 2022, scored more than 120 goals for the Reds, 90 of them in the Premier League. The Senegal leader was part of the last magic trident that has been part of Liverpool and football history for the past decade, alongside Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino, Mané was one of those responsible for Liverpool's impressive run of titles that overshadowed fierce rivals Manchester United and Everton FC.

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The Senegalese Football Federation resorted to every possible method - including witchcraft - to get the now Bayern Munich superstar ready, where a knee injury robbed him of the chance to add a second World Cup to his career; seeing Mané's pained face broke the hearts of millions of fans who knew that football itself was losing out with the absence of the world's best-loved smile.

Mané sent out a message on his social media channels in which he became just another fan, and asked his teammates to be one and the same. Sadly Senegal disappointed in their debut, going down two-nil to a Netherlands team led on the pitch by Anfield superstar Virgil van Dijk, who also suffered the 30-year-old striker's loss, saying he would not be facing one of his best friends on the pitch.

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Sadio, who also recently showed empathy for Garerth Souhtgate's side, said he was with the English because of his two good friends, Jordan Henderson and Trent Alexander-Arnold, who despite the distance between Munich and Liverpool, remain in touch. Mané wishes both Senegal and England success in the tournament, but if they were to meet in the last 16, he would be heartbroken.