His famous father played for these Bundesliga clubs

He shot more Bundesliga goals than his son

This is the famous father of Leroy Sané

Leroy Sané was put in the cradle. The German national football player has an Olympionician as a mother and an ex-football professional as a father.

Leroy Sané is one of the best German footballers. At FC Bayern Munich and in the German national team, he has been a regular staff for years. His father was also a national soccer player-but not for Germany, but for Senegal (55 games/29 goals).

Soulymane Sané was one of the first Africans in the Bundesliga. He played as a professional in Germany for SC Freiburg, the 1st FC Nürnberg and SG Wattenscheid 09. In 174 Bundesliga games, Soulymane Sané scored 51 goals, plus 65 goals in 152 second division missions. He is currently still the more successful Sané in the Bundesliga goalkeeper list, because Leroy is currently with 47 goals (as of March 21, 2025). In the 1987/88 season, Sané Senior with 21 goals for Freiburg became the first foreign top scorer in the history of the 2nd Bundesliga.

Soulymanane was born in Dakar. He moved to France with his family at the age of four, where his father worked at the Senegalese embassy. The path to professional football was not as straightforward as that of his son. While Leroy already played in youth at Wattenscheid, Schalke and Leverkusen, Soulyman’s sporting career began far from football. “I did athletics and struggles in my childhood. I was also good, my best time over 100 meters is 10.7 seconds. Later I still boxed,” revealed Souleymana in an interview with the magazine “11Freunde”.

Despite the success in other sports, Souleyman ended in football. In Toulouse he was in the footsteps of his brother, who was already playing there as a professional. However, the military service was in the way, so that Sané landed in the Black Forest instead of the second French league and joined FV Donaueschingen there.

After two years in the lowlands of German football, SC Freiburg Sané signed, who returned trust in the first year with 18 goals. Three very successful years in Freiburg later we went to the Bundesliga for the 1. FC Nürnberg. After two more mixed seasons, he moved to Wattenscheid, where it went uphill again. Even today, Soulymane Sané with a total of 39 goals is the most successful Bundesliga shooter in the history of the association.

Sané stayed in Wattenscheid for four years before moving to Austria to Austria. Stations at the Linz ASK as well as Lausanne-Sport and FC Schaffhausen (both in Switzerland) followed, interrupted by another two years in Wattenscheid (1997 to 1999). Sané ended his career in Germany from 2001 and most recently played at the DJK Wattenscheid in the Kreisliga B. in 2010 at the age of 49

Sané repeatedly met racism in his career. “At first I didn’t understand what they called. ‘Hush, hush, negro in the bush!’ What should be done later when I did the German language better. What did it look like? After a goal against Hamburger SV, the HSV fans threw oranges and bananas to Sané. This picked up a banana on the corner flag, peeled it and bite into it.

Leroy explained in an interview in an interview on the FC Bayern homepage about his father: “He certainly had it more difficult than I was today. In his time it was still unusual that you played football in a strange country. For him, the new territory meant that it was also a different situation than today. He had to go through the language alone. easier than before. “

From 2008 to 2011, Soulymane Sané was a national coach of Zanzibars. After his active career, he worked as a player consultant and also represented the interests of his son Leroy.