What would you do if you’re a millionaire footballer like Sadio Mane? Buy a Maserati or two, and party the night away?
Not for this millionaire footballer, though.
Meet Sadio Mane
He is a Liverpool professional soccer player who came from Senegal.
Based on Spotrac, he is currently earning an annual salary of £5.2 million (~S$9.4 million).
And yet, when fans spotted him, they saw him carrying this.
Reader Bao: What’s that? The latest iPhone 30?
No, take a closer look.
He was spotted carrying an iPhone with a cracked screen.
When Sadio Mane was asked why he would continue using a cracked phone, he allegedly said this:
Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches and two jet planes? What would that do for the world?
He mentioned that he had starved, worked in the fields, played barefoot and couldn’t afford to go to school.
Rather than spending money on himself, he’ll prefer that his people have a little of what he was given.
He claimed to have built schools and a stadium.
He has given shoes, clothes and food for people living in extreme poverty.
In addition, he gave 70 euros per month to people from a very poor Senegalese region to help with their economy.
He said that he’ll “prefer” that his people have a little bit of what he was “given in life”.
Netizens in Love With His Actions
The photo, posted on 22 Feb 2020, has gone viral with 7.1k comments and 47k shares.
While some netizens don’t seem to believe that such a person exist:
A huge majority of the comments loved him for his selfless actions, and for remembering his roots.
This person said it best:
If you ask me, I’ll believe that such a person exist.
After all, even in Singapore, a Porsche driver can show such kindness to a Grab driver liao. What else is impossible, right?
