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Tottenham's Pape Sarr opens up on his journey from his father's team in Senegal to the Premier League and claims he 'owes it all to his family'

Tottenham midfielder Pape Sarr has opened up on his 'beautiful experience' of football in Senegal and his journey to the Premier League.

Aged just 21, Sarr has been a key cog for Ange Postecoglou's table-topping Tottenham side this season, appearing in every game so far.

He began his career at the legendary Generation Foot in Dakar, which has produced a host of other Premier League names including Sadio Mane, Papiss Cisse, Ismaïla Sarr and Diafra Sakho.

Sarr's earliest football experiences came earlier in Senegal's third city, as he told the Premier League: 'My first contact with football was in Thies where I grew up in Senegal.