Aminu Sani (born 14 May 1980 in

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) is a Nigerian professional

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player.

Club career

Sani started playing professionally in Katsina United, but soon, at 17 years, he went to

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and signed with Atalanta Bergamo. After one season, he signed with top Belgian club

Club Brugge (), known simply as Club Brugge (in English also: ''Club Bruges''), is a Belgian professional football club based in Bruges, Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,042. They pl ...

where he stayed until 2003. In the last season he was loaned, in the last half of the season, to

FC Brussels Racing White Daring Molenbeek Brussels Football Club, often simply referred to as RWDM Brussels, F.C. Brussels or simply Brussels, was a Belgian professional association football club based in the municipality of Molenbeek, in the Brussels, Bru ...

, known in that period by the name of KFC Strombeek. In summer 2003, he moved to

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to play in

Hapoel Be'er Sheva Hapoel Be'er Sheva Football Club (, ''Moadon HaKaduregel Hapoel Be'er Sheva'') is an Israeli professional association football, football club from the city of Beersheba, Be'er Sheva, that competes in the Israeli Premier League. The club was estab ...

. A series of injuries made him almost give up, but in December 2006, he signed with a lower Italian league side Alghero Calcio, where he expected to return to his maximum form. In 2008, he moved to

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to play in

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International career

He was part of the

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in 1999.

Honours

Club Brugge *

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: 2001–02 *

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References

External sources

Aminu Sani
at Club Brugge official website
Profile in As

Player profile in official Club Brugge website
*
Signing with italian side Alghero
Living people 1980 births Footballers from Lagos Nigerian men's footballers Nigerian expatriate men's footballers Atalanta BC players Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Club Brugge KV players Belgian Pro League players R.W.D.M. Brussels F.C. players Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C. players Expatriate men's footballers in Israel FK Radnički 1923 players Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia Men's association football midfielders Katsina United F.C. players Serbian First League players Polisportiva Alghero players 21st-century Nigerian sportsmen {{Nigeria-footy-midfielder-stub