Tobias Sana
Tobias Sana, 2009
Tobias Sana ( born July 11, 1989 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish footballer partly of Burkina Faso. The offensive player is since the summer of 2012 the Dutch giants Ajax Amsterdam under contract. In the same year he made his debut in the Swedish national team.
Childhood
Sana was born in 1989 as a child of a Swedish mother and a Burkinabe father in Gothenburg. He grew up in the Gothenburg area.
Career
Start your career in Sweden
Sana began playing football at Marieholms BoIK before he moved to the youth department of Västra Frölunda IF. From there he moved to local rivals Qviding FIF further, for whom he debuted in the Superettan 2008. In the second division climber, he played 22 season games and scored two goals. Then the young player moved within the city to the IFK Göteborg, where he signed a contract valid until the end of 2012. At the start of the Premiership season 2009 he made his debut in Allsvenskan, but was able to earn a regular place. Thus During the summer he returned to five Erstligapartien due to a clause in his contract on loan to his previous game station back and denied for Qviding FIF seven games until the end of the season, but the club missed the league in the second division.
After his return to IFK Göteborg Sana was initially under the coaching duo of Jonas Olsson and Stefan Rehn still only a reserve player in the premier league team before he on the side of Ragnar Sigurðsson, Tobias Hysén, Andreas Drugge and Karl Svensson at the beginning of the season of 2011 regular place won. By the end of the season he came in 26 games for use with the team and reached the seventh place in the table. Even after a coaching change - Mikael Stahre took over the year - he was one in the first half of the season the 2012 largely to the root formation, although he slipped with the club in the relegation battle. In April, the Association of Burkina Faso reported on interest aground Sana as a national player for the Burkina Faso country selection. The player claimed to be flattered to have, however, made no thoughts about the national team. In addition, the son of a former Burki had at that time no corresponding pass.
Transfer abroad and jump in the national team
August 1, 2012 Frank de Boer Sana presented as a new addition to the Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam before, in which already Sana models Patrick Kluivert and Zlatan Ibrahimović had played, and attended the signing of a three-year contract with. Had Sana less than two weeks later, his debut as a substitute for Lasse Schøne in a 2-2 draw against AZ Alkmaar for the club in the Eredivisie, he crowned his first appearance in the starting lineup in the second game with two goals in a 6-1 win at NEC Nijmegen. As a regular player on the right wing, he ran for the club in the UEFA Champions League, his first game in this competition he played during a 0-1 away defeat at German champions Borussia Dortmund.
Sana's good performance in the Netherlands led him into the circle of the Swedish national team. The press has highlighted in his appeal that he had not committed the way through one of the Swedish junior national team to the A national team. Under coach Erik Hamrén he made his debut on 16 October 2012 at the World Cup qualifier against Germany when he on in the 78 minutes the score of 3:4 to strengthen the offensive - Sweden had caught up a temporary 0:4 residue - was and in injury time equalizer from Rasmus Elm witnessed.