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born 1976 Nigeria
Nwankwo Kanu (born 1 August 1976) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He was a member of the Nigeria national team, and played for Nigerian team Iwuanyanwu Nationale, Dutch side Ajax, Inter Milan of Italy, and English clubs Arsenal, West Bromwich Albion and Portsmouth.
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Suffice it to say everything about me then was football. So, regardless of my height, I would still have played football, and not basketball.
My kids are growing and I don’t want them to have a wrong orientation. So, I’ll still revert to the normal style someday.
It’s very important to be happy with what you’re doing, and to me I’m very happy with what I’m doing because saving a life means a lot more than winning trophies. Trophies are good, but saving somebody who could die, giving them hope of a life, that means a lot to me.
My dad had always been a sports person, my elder brother used to play football then, even my younger brother, so it was as if members of my family have always been lovers of football.
Yes, footballers are very rich, but footballers work hard too. When you work hard in life, you are likely to be rich and if you are lazy, you would likely be poor
The beautiful thing was that when it was time to play, they would leave us to play our football very well, they supported us to go after our passion and those were the things that helped us.
When I saw them playing football with boots, it reminded me of how I started and I had to tell them to count themselves lucky that they had boots to play football.
There is no shortcut to success, whether you are a footballer or not. Today, if you hear the name Dangote, everybody knows his name, for the obvious reasons, but if he tells his story, you would see that it might not have come easy. So, that is the way it is in football.
That passion and interest in it drove me to be who I am today because that was what I had always loved doing. I remember that there were times people felt my height wouldn’t allow me to play football, just because they thought I was too tall, but it didn’t work that way.
I like my privacy, and when I come out, I do so for a reason, and it has to be something that is worth it. That is when you can see me. That is why you don’t see me everywhere, especially social events. It is not everywhere you see Papilo, so you can say it is deliberate.
I would have been a businessman. I mean any kind of business that brings profit; buying and selling or any kind of business like that. That is what would have appealed to me.
I wasn’t born with this hairstyle, so, it won’t always be like this. I’ll still go back, but when that will happen is what I don’t know. But if it’s about going back, be 100 per cent sure I’m going back.
It means a lot because I've been there already, but the thing with Africa is whenever any country (from the continent) is playing, the other countries are supporting it, which is very very massive and very very good for the region.