Bernd Leno is a famous German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He plays for the English football club Arsenal. Also protects the colors of the German national team.
Biography
The future footballer was born at the very beginning of spring 1992 in the small German town of Bittingheim-Bissingen. The parents of the national star of Germany are Russian Germans who lived in the city of Anapa. In the late eighties, they left the Soviet Union. Bernd is a native German, but as a child he was fluent in Russian. To date, he has slightly lost his skills, but he still understands Russian speech well.
As a child, Leno was very fond of sports, was fond of football. Parents decided to send the boy to the local amateur team "Germany", where his son entered at the age of six. There he established himself well and two years later he transferred to the academy of the famous club Stuttgart.
Professional career
As a member of the Stuttgart youth team, Leno won the Swabian championship, after which the leadership of the academy decided to transfer the talented goalkeeper to the farm club. The football player continued his performances in the third division of Germany. Bernd signed his first professional contract with the club when he was 18 years old. Then the goalkeeper was noticed by the breeders of the national team and made a call to the youth team.
In 2011, Leno got into the application of the main team of “Stuttgart” as a backup, the third goalkeeper. Although not everyone is honored, in fact, the third goalkeeper practically does not appear on the field. Leno for the entire season has never participated in matches and almost never declared as a reserve. The young player was given a chance in the next season, he was transferred to the second part of the club, where he became the first goalkeeper and repeatedly contributed to the victory of the team.
In 2012, after a short-term lease, Bayer Football Club bought a talented goalkeeper. Leno spent six years in the new club, for which he entered the field 210 times. In 2018, the career of the legendary Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech completed his career and Bernda Leno, who has played in England until now, has acquired the English club to replace him.
National team
In the German national team, Bernd began to be attracted at a young age. In 2014, the leadership of the team announced that in the future Leno will replace the legendary German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer. In 2016, the young goalkeeper first played for the country's main team, in a friendly match against Slovakia. In 2017, Germany sent the experimental team to the Confederation Cup in Russia, which included Leno. The team won the tournament, and the young goalkeeper won the first serious trophy in his career.
