Senegalese footballer Sadio Mané out for 'first games' at Qatar 2022

DOHA: Senegal forward Sadio Mané will miss his team's "first games" at the World Cup because of a leg injury, a Senegal soccer federation board member said on Tuesday.

Abdoulaye Sow said Senegal will have to cope without its best player for the start of the tournament and "not whine too much."

"We will have to rely on playing the first games without Sadio and win without Sadio because we have 25 players apart from Sadio," Sow said. "No one would have wanted it, but that's what's happened to us."

Sow didn't specify how many games Mané is expected to miss, and there has been no official word from Senegal or Bayern Munich.

Mané was injured a week ago in a German league game between Bayern and Werder Bremen. He was substituted in the 20th minute of Bayern's 6-1 win. Bayern said the two-time African player of the year has an injury to the head of the fibula bone in his lower right leg. Agencies

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