#2 Leroy Sane
The most popular name on the list, Leroy Sane has already upped his stature as one of Europe’s hottest talents with his performances at Manchester City. Meanwhile, his father Souleyman Sane is the least popular player on the list.
A striker by trade, Souleyman spent almost a decade playing for German clubs Freiburg, Nurnberg and Wattenscheid in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was capped 55 times by the Senegalese national team.
(Video Courtesy – Bundesliga YouTube Channel)
His son, however, made himself known to the world with Schalke in Germany, before Pep Guardiola decided to splash the cash to bring the German to England. After an initial settling-in period, Sane has lit up both the league and the Champions League.
He has notched up two goals and two assists in just four games in the Champions League and already has three goals in the Premier League. Claiming that he inherited his pace from his father, who was known to run 100 metres in 10.7 seconds, and balance from his mother Regina, who won the Olympic bronze in gymnastics for West Germany at the 1984 event, 21-year-old Sane well on his way to building a legacy of his own.
(Video Courtesy – MShow YouTube Channel)