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Mane leaves crippled with evident wounded (0:37)
Sadio Mane leaves crippled with an evident wounded to his little body. (0:37)
Senegal and Bayern Munich striker Sadio Mane volition not instrumentality portion successful the 2022 World Cup successful Qatar, his country's federation announced connected Thursday.
Mane, 30, picked up the wounded successful Bayern's 6-1 triumph implicit Werder Bremen connected Nov. 8. He was substituted connected 20 minutes with the squad describing it the time aft the lucifer arsenic an wounded to the caput of the fibula bony successful his little close leg.
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Despite the injury, Mane was still included successful the Senegal squad for the World Cup and was expected to miss astatine slightest their archetypal crippled of the tournament against the Netherlands connected Nov. 20.
However, the squad revealed successful a quality league connected Thursday that further scans connected the two-time African subordinate of the twelvemonth showed helium would necessitate country for the wounded and would not beryllium capable to play successful Qatar.
"The latest quality has arrived conscionable now, and since the wounded to Sadio Mane which happened connected Nov. 8, we made interaction precise rapidly with Bayern Munich to person the information," Senegal squad doc Manuel Afonso told reporters. "The adjacent day, the nine communicated to america the images of the archetypal MRI helium undertook, which showed an wounded to his close genu and for which we went to analyse the subordinate and instrumentality different look astatine the images close astatine the bosom of the club.
"This is wherefore I travelled connected the 10th and 11th of November to get each of his data. It was decided to acquisition different MRI contiguous [Nov. 17] to recognize the improvement and find whether oregon not it was imaginable for Sadio Mane to support his spot astatine the World Cup.
"And, sadly, today's MRI has shown that the improvement is not arsenic favourable arsenic we'd person imagined, and truthful we've resolved -- sadly -- to state that Mane is forfeit for this World Cup, and usually a surgical involution volition beryllium scheduled precise shortly."
Senegal volition look hosts Qatar and past Ecuador successful Group A aft their opener against the Dutch.
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