The stage is set to reveal the standard makeup of the achievement these players have made on the pitch.
While the former (Drogba) has retired as we saw him sporting a mala hair cut in the Ballon D’or award last time in the award ceremony in Zurich, we acknowledge the present beauty Sadio Mane is producing on the pitch as far as the game of football is concerned.
Following Sadio Mane’s recent AFCON heroics Naijaloaded.com evaluate the three similarities between these two African stars
Both Players Of African Origin
Both players (Didier Drogba) and (Sadio Mane) are interesting personnel and role models on and off the pitch.
Even as we know they are both of African origin, and from the West African region to be precise.
The former Chelsea star is from Ivory Coast while his African colleague Sadio Mane hails from Senegal.
UEFA Champions League Winner
Didier Drogba and Sadio Mane have paid their dues in world football.
Even when the latter is still currently playing thus making further headlines for himself as a professional.
Drogba won the UEFA Champions League with Chelsea in a dramatic fashion, the same goes for Mane who’ve done so with Liverpool when they defeated fellow English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur in the finals some season ago.
Penalty Winning Catalysts
The Ivorian star (Didier Drogba) rose up to the occasion to sealed his legendary status in West London when he converted from the Penalty spot to win Chelsea their first-ever UEFA Champions League trophy.
And he’s loved and very much remember for that memories by the Stamford Bridge fans.
While Mane may have just done a similar thing when he sealed a first-ever AFCON Trophy for his country Senegal under the same circumstances from the Penalty spot.
Written by Obiweluozo Martins
