Soukane was born in 1936 in
El Biar,
Algiers, Algeria. Nicknamed
Soukane II, he started his playing career in the junior ranks of
JS El Biar. At the age of 20, he joined French club
Le Havre AC, playing with the club for 8 seasons. He helped the team reach the top flight of French football in 1959, winning the
Division 2 Championship. However, after three seasons,
Le Havre was relegated again to the second division. Soukane stayed with the club until 1964, when the professional section of the club was disbanded. In his final season with
Le Havre, he would finish as the top scorer in
Ligue 2 with 21 goals, the first
African to do so. In 1964, he joined
Toulouse FC after discussions with long-time
FLN teammate
Kader Firoud who was announced as coach of the team. In his first season, Toulouse finished a modest 11th in the 18-team top division. In his second season, they finished 4th in the standings, earning a ticket to the
UEFA Cup (known as the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Finals then). He would also lead the team to the semi-finals of the
Coupe de France, where they lost 2–1 to
RC Strasbourg. Soukane scored Toulouse's only goal in that game, and was also used as goalkeeper after the expulsion of the Toulouse keeper Devis. Soukane played two more seasons with
Toulouse FC, and at the end of the 1967 season left the club after the disbandment of the professional section. He played one season with
Red Star 93 before retiring from football. He died at the age of 78 on 5 July 2015, in El Biar, Algiers. ==International career==