{"id":37968,"date":"2022-10-17T20:40:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/?p=37968"},"modified":"2022-10-17T21:17:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T20:17:15","slug":"mane-wins-socrates-award-for-charity-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/mane-wins-socrates-award-for-charity-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Mane wins Socrates Award for charity work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former Liverpool star, Sadio Mane on Monday night received France Football&#8217;s inaugural Socrates Award, in recognition of his charity work in his native Senegal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mane, 30, is accustomed to writing headlines on the pitch, but it&#8217;s his continued efforts off it that are making the biggest difference.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Socrates Prize identifies the best social initiative by committed champions,&#8221; said a statement from France Football magazine, which added the humanitarian award to the 2022 Ballon d&#8217;Or ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The accolade is named after the late footballer Socrates, who co-founded the Corinthians Democracy movement, in opposition to the ruling military government in 1980s Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Mane, who is the reigning African Footballer of the Year, was also nominated for the Ballon d&#8217;Or.<\/p>\n<p>He scored 23 goals in his final season as a Liverpool player whilst helping Senegal win their maiden Africa Cup of Nations title, and has since produced nine goals and an assist in 16 competitive appearances for Bayern.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really happy to be a guest tonight,&#8221; Mane said. &#8220;Sometimes I&#8217;m a bit shy, but I&#8217;m really happy to do what I can do for my people to make things better.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Liverpool star, Sadio Mane on Monday night received France Football&#8217;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&#8217;s his continued efforts off it that are making the biggest difference. The Bayern Munich forward has built a public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":37976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[84,30,3],"tags":[319,537,250],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/577913A2-CCB2-4102-8A92-815A24C7CBE4.jpeg?fit=827%2C759&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd18y-9So","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37970,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37968\/revisions\/37970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportingtribune.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}