Lassana Camará

Lassana Camará (born 29 December 1991), commonly known as Saná, is a Bissau-Guinean footballer who plays as a central midfielder.[1] He also holds Portuguese citizenship.

Saná
Personal information
Full name Lassana Camará
Date of birth (1991-12-29) 29 December 1991
Place of birth Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
2006–2010 Benfica
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 Benfica 0 (0)
2010–2011 → Servette (loan) 7 (0)
2011–2012 Valladolid 2 (0)
2012–2013 Académica 0 (0)
2014 Botafogo-BA
2014–2015 Braga B 21 (0)
2016–2017 Académico Viseu 10 (0)
2017–2018 Leixões 1 (0)
2018 Olhanense 3 (0)
2019 SCM Gloria Buzău 1 (0)
National team‡
2007–2008 Portugal U17 3 (0)
2008–2010 Portugal U19 32 (2)
2011 Portugal U20 13 (0)
2011 Portugal U21 3 (1)
2014– Guinea-Bissau 3 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 9 December 2019
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 25 March 2017

Club career

Born in Bissau, Guinea Bissau, Camará spent four years in S.L. Benfica's youth system, scoring two goals in 33 games in his last year as a junior. He started his professional career at Servette FC in Switzerland: having arrived injured from the 2010 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, he only returned to competition in January 2011, and played just 257 minutes in the second division campaign as the João Alves-led team – a former Benfica player and also his manager in the juniors – attained Super League promotion.

On 9 July 2011, Camará signed a three-year contract with Real Valladolid in Spain.[2] At the end of his first and only season the team promoted to La Liga after a two-year absence, but he only totalled 33 minutes of action and was released after several problems with the management and the board of directors.[3][4]

On 30 August 2014, after nearly two years without a club and a brief spell in Brazil, Camará signed with S.C. Braga, being assigned to the reserves in the second level.[5]

International career

Saná won 51 caps for Portugal at youth level, including 13 for the under-20s. He helped them reach the final at the 2011 FIFA World Cup,[6] appearing in three matches.

Saná switched allegiance to Guinea Bissau in 2014, making his debut on 2 August by playing 59 minutes in a 1–1 home draw against Botswana for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.[7]

Honours
SCM Gloria Buzău

References
  1. A pierdut finala CM de fotbal în faţa Braziliei, iar acum îşi relansează cariera în Crâng. Fotbalistul pe care Casemiro nu l-a impresionat. buzaul-sportiv.ro (in Romanian)
  2. "Sana: "Voy a demostrar por qué el Real Valladolid ha confiado en mí"" [Sana: "I will show why Real Valladolid trusted in me"]. El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). 10 July 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
  3. "Saná y Manucho, ausencias inesperadas en el regreso al trabajo" [Saná and Manucho, unexpected absences in return to work]. Marca (in Spanish). 27 December 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  4. "Djukic propaga su filosofía en las dos orillas del Pisuerga" [Djukic spreads his philosophy at the banks of the Pisuerga]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 17 June 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  5. "Saná no SC Braga" [Saná to SC Braga] (in Portuguese). International Foot. August 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  6. "Oscar treble wins thrilling final for Brazil". FIFA. 20 August 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2016.
  7. "Guinea Bissau 1–1 Botswana". African Soccer Weebly. 2 August 2014. Archived from the original on 3 August 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
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