Head injury charity pressures Fifa after Senegal’s Sadio Mané hospitalised

[The Guardian]

• Headway insists player needed substituting in Afcon match
• Charity says head impact should rule player out of quarter-final

Fifa and the Confederation of African Football face a test of leadership over whether Sadio Mané plays in Senegal’s Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final, according to the brain injury charity Headway.
The Liverpool forward was taken to hospital with a suspected concussion after clashing heads with Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha during Senegal’s last-16 win in the Africa Cup of Nations on Tuesday.
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