The story of Leopold Sawadogo and his family’s Montclair Brewery is a soccer story. Long before he co-founded the brewery with his wife Denise Sawadogo, Leo Sawadogo, 64, was a professional soccer player in Ivory Coast, just across the border from his native Burkina Faso. Leo and Denise Sawadogo of Montclair Brewery. For years, Sawadogo played as a goalkeeper, a tenacious defender who used his size to spread across the goal.