Career
A native of Ochamchira, Abkhazia, Sanaya played as a goalkeeper. He started his professional football career at Football Club Dinamo Sukhumi during the 1941 season. In 1944, he then joined Football Club Dinamo Tbilisi.
In the 1946 season, Sanaya was hired by Dynamo Moscow, where he spent the next years.
As a goalkeeper in Moscow, he was internally competing with fellow teammates Alexei Khomich and later Lev Yashin and finally took a back seat. After a short return to Dinamo Tbilisi in 1954, he joined Neftyanik Baku.
He retired in 1956. He died in 1999 in Moscow.