Emmanuel Sanon [SEP] cause of death
France Football: World Cup Top-100 1930–1990
- Haitian Athlete of the Century (1999)
Honours Orders.
- National Order of Honour and Merit: "Commander" (2007)
Death.
On 21 February 2008, Emmanuel Sanon died of pancreatic cancer, aged 56. The Haitian Legislature voted to award a perpetual exempted pension to his family posthumously as an honorific gesture for scoring the goals in Haiti's 1974 FIFA World Cup participation.
External links.
- FIFA: Remembering Manno
World Cup in Germany. Haiti won all but their last match against Mexico but finished with the most points in the tournament and qualified for their first world football championship, where arguably their best football player of all time, Emmanuel Sanon, wrote history. The first half of their debut game against Italy ended in a scoreless draw, but the team surprised the football world when star forward Emmanuel Sanon scored shortly after the break to give Haiti a 1–0 lead. Although the Italians eventually came back to win the game 3–1, Sanon