A Haiti’s most celebrated soccer player Emmanuel Sanon died on Thursday morning local time following a pancreatic cancer. Emmanuel Sanon was well known as Manno. Emmanuel Sanon was 56 years old. Sanon was a deadly striker, a symbol of Haitian football who beat the myth of the “virgin net” of Dino Zoff when he scored against Italy on June 1974.

Emmanuel Sanon was born in June 1951 & was the “Haitian Superstar” in all glorious terms. Sanon played for the Don Bosco team. A national funeral service is scheduled for the “hero” in Port-au-Prince.