Bayern sign Sadio Mane’s friend

Desiree Sigbet Azankpo has signed a two-year contract with the Bavarian reserve team after leading the Senegalese winger in Munich.

Senegalese and German newspapers reported this Monday about a signing that, surely, no one would have guessed: Desiree Sigby Azankbou, the Benin international who played in Ligue 3 in 2021/22, signed for two seasons with the reserve team. Bayern.

Azankpo is an old friend of Sadio Mane, the winger who left Liverpool for the Bavarians in this summer market, and both coincided with Generation Foot, a Senegalese side linked to France’s Metz, where the two players trained.

Unlike what happened with Mane, who exploded in Austria in Salzburg and charmed the Premier League in the service of Southampton and Liverpool, before moving to Bayern Munich, Azankpo had a much smaller career – he played in Luxembourg, Slovakia, Romania and in the lower ranks of France.

At the age of 29, Mane’s boyfriend was without a club – he ended up with Dunkirk, France’s third tier, in June – and worked as a driver for the Senegalese international, after the Bavarian giants decided to officially include him at the club. , more specifically on the reservation team.