doha senegal star sadio mane has lost his race to be fit for the 2022 world cup and has been withdrawn from their squad the countrys football federation announced on thursdaymane was voted second in the ballon dor last month behind karim benzema and the 30yearold bayern munich forward will be sorely missed by the african championsthe emblematic mane scored the winning penalty in a shootout victory against egypt in the african cup of nations final and repeated the feat against the same opponents to qualify the lions of teranga for the world cuphe was voted african footballer of the year for his feats and has scored 33 times in 92 matches for senegalmane picked up his shin injury playing for bayern earlier this month but was named in the world cup squad in the hope he could regain fitnessbut on thursday senegal said the former liverpool star would not make itunfortunately todays thursday mri shows us that the improvement is not as favorable as we imagined and unfortunately we have to withdraw sadio from the world cup said team doctor manuel afonso in a video on the official senegal twitter accountsenegal had hoped their talisman would be fit in time for their opening game on november 21 against the netherlandsthey will also take on hosts qatar and ecuador in group asenegal football federation chief augustin senghor told afp thursday there was no panic over the loss and said the players health had been paramount in their decisionwe have been ready for this since the news of his injury senghor said we had been waiting for new test results and when they came in we all agreed his health had to come firstwhen asked how the team had taken the blow senghor replied zenbut senegal international pape gueye told afp that mane would be missedmane is irreplacable he said but we do have other options on the flank and thats a ray of hope on a dark day for senegalafter naming mane in his world cup squad a week ago coach aliou cisse was optimistic but cautiouslosing sadio mane is not an easy thing for a coach for the team even for african football he saidmane had been in munich receiving treatment with his club