Sadio Mane zai taka leda a Senegal lokacin da za su kara da Morocco a wasan karshe na AFCON 2025.
Sadio Mane zai tabbatar da matsayinsa na daya daga cikin manyan ‘yan wasan Afirka a tarihi idan ya kai Senegal ga nasara a kan masu masaukin baki Maroko a wasan karshe na gasar cin kofin duniya na ranar Lahadi, wasan da ya ce zai yi bankwana da gasar.
Tsohon dan wasan Liverpool Mane ya cika shekara 34 a watan Afrilu, kuma ya buga wa kasarsa wasa sama da 120, inda ya sake buga wasa na farko da Morocco jim kadan bayan cika shekaru 20 a 2012.
Babban abin da ya taka rawar gani a duniya ya zo ne a watan Fabrairun 2022, lokacin da ya yi tauraro yayin da Lions na Teranga suka doke Masar a bugun fanariti a wasan karshe na gasar cin kofin duniya a Yaounde.
Bayan da ya rasa bugun fanariti a lokacin da aka saba a wannan dare, ya tashi ya zura kwallo a bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida, sannan Senegal, wacce ta kai wasan kusa da na karshe a gasar cin kofin duniya a shekarar 2002, ta zama zakaran Afirka a karon farko.
An dauke wani katon nauyi daga kafadar yaron daga wani karamin gari da ke gabar kogin Casamance a kudancin kasar Senegal.
“Kafin na lashe gasar cin kofin Afrika, wani lokacin na taka rawar gani saboda matsin lamba,” Mane ya yarda a cikin wata hira da aka yi da shi a kwanan nan ga Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast yayin da yake bayyana mahimmancin nasarar.
“Mutane a Turai suna son ‘yan wasan kasarsu amma wasu mutane sun fi son kulob din su – Senegal akasin haka.
“Wannan shine dalilin da ya sa akwai wannan babban matsin lamba, don haka dole ne in ci nasara a wannan. Yana da matukar muhimmanci.”
Haka kuma an samu rahusa mai yawa ga dan wasan kwallon kafa na Afirka sau biyu a shekara, ciki har da rashin nasara a wasan karshe da Algeria a birnin Alkahira a shekarar 2019 da rashin halartar gasar cin kofin duniya ta 2022 da rauni.
– Gasar cin kofin duniya mai zuwa –
Amma yana fatan sanya shekarar 2026 ta zama abin tunawa ta hanyar da’awar dakika daya AFCON lambar yabo ta lashe kyautar kafin ya karkata akalarsa zuwa gasar cin kofin duniya da za a yi a Amurka, inda Senegal za ta kasance rukuni daya da Faransa da Norway.
Bayan da ya ci kwallon da ta yi nasara a wasan kusa da na karshe da Mohamed Salah na Masar a ranar Laraba, Mane ya bayyana cewa wasan karshe da Morocco a Rabat zai kasance wasansa na karshe a gasar cin kofin duniya.
“Ina fatan in yi nasara kuma in dawo da kofin a Dakar,” in ji dan wasan wanda ya shafe shekaru biyu da rabi a Saudi Arabia tare da Al-Nassr, inda ya kirga Cristiano Ronaldo a cikin takwarorinsa.
Akwai ra’ayin cewa gasar cin kofin duniya da ke gabatowa na iya zama wakoki ga tsararrakin ‘yan wasan Senegal wadanda suka hada da mai tsaron gida Edouard Mendy, kyaftin Kalidou Koulibaly, da dan wasan tsakiya Idrissa Gana Gueye.
Mane ya yi taka-tsan-tsan a wasansa na duniya yana wasa karkashin Aliou Cisse kafin Pape Thiaw ya zama koci a karshen 2024.
“Mu yi fatan za mu sami karin shekaru masu yawa tare da shi, domin ba ku samun dan wasa kamarsa a kowace rana, kuma muna bukatar mu yi amfani da shi sosai,” in ji Thiaw game da Mane bayan nasarar Masar.
“Ina fatan wannan ba zai zama na karshe ba; akwai wasu gasa da ke tafe, don haka za mu gani.”
Mane ya zura kwallaye biyu kacal a Maroko a cikin watan da ya gabata, sauran kwallonsa kuma ta zo ne a wasan da suka tashi kunnen doki da Jamhuriyar Dimokaradiyyar Congo a matakin rukuni – yanzu yana da kwallaye 11 a gasar cin kofin duniya baki daya, wanda ya sanya shi cikin fitattun ‘yan wasa da suka kai adadi biyu.
Yayin da Iliman Ndiaye na Everton ke girma kuma matashin Paris Saint-Germain Ibrahim Mbaye ya fito a wannan gasar, dole ne Mane ya ji cewa harin Senegal na kan gaba.
Sanarwar tasa ta nuna cewa a shirye ya ke ya juya baya ga gasar AFCON mai zuwa, wadda za a yi a Kenya da Tanzania da Uganda a shekara mai zuwa.
Idan har zai iya taimakawa Senegal ta lashe kambu na biyu a cikin bugu uku, wanda ke tabbatar da matsayinsu na ƙwararrun ƙwallon ƙafa na Afirka na zamani, tabbas zai ji kamar an gama aikinsa.
