He hung up his shoes in 2013 after a great career as a group that allowed the whole world to recognize the only African player who won the title of best player in Africa without being born in Africa.
He achieved great success in Seville and won the King’s Cup and the European League with them twice, and scored 136 goals with them in seven seasons to be their fourth historical scorer and the historical player of the Andalusian team and the adoration of its fans.
He gave meaning to many children in his hometown and started an orphanage village and football schools across the country as part of the much good he does in his home country.
He was born to a Malian father and a French mother
Converted to Islam at the age of twenty years
He refused to play some matches with the Seville team because there was an advertisement for a famous gambling company on the team’s shirt, and he did not agree to wear the logo later, except after the company pledged to sponsor some of the poor in Mali.
The Muslims of Seville did not forget his position to save their mosque, which had been ordered to be demolished, so he decided to buy the land with what was on it and donated it to keep the mosque as it is. He also undertook the process of establishing a large Islamic center in Seville with the help of Benjamin Mendy, Abdullah Doukuri and Abu Diaby.
He organized with UNICEF a big match that brought together the stars of Africa against the Seville club, and its income was allocated to combat child mortality in Africa
- During the Gaza war in 2008, he sympathized with the Palestinians by wearing their logo under his team's shirt, and he was fined 3,000 euros for this matter.
A beautiful model for a person who is not separated from all his human and social issues
He has many white hands on his compatriots in the village of "Sekina" that he established to care for orphaned children in Mali, educate them, educate them, and equip them mathematically to be an extension of him and many stars who came out of Africa to draw the attention of the world to have a bright spot in his history and life and ongoing charity after his death
Frederic Omar Kanoute
The legend of Mali and Seville