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Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Tochi360: 11:04am On Aug 01, 2025
Happy Birthday

PAPILO.
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Slic1: 11:04am On Aug 01, 2025
Happy birthday to you papilo more blessings to you.





Keep on shining.
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Morbeta11(m): 11:06am On Aug 01, 2025
Even Kanu will be laughing at his age... grin
Happy birthday Legend.... grin

Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Krismas(m): 11:09am On Aug 01, 2025
nlfpmod:
Birthday: Nwankwo Kanu Turns 49 Today!

Happy birthday to Kanu.
grin HBD Papilo the greatest
Many happy returns.
LLAP grin
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by bukatyne(f): 11:12am On Aug 01, 2025
Pygmalionn:
I watched a full grown Kanu play for Ajax when I was in Junior secondary.
And now I'm almost the same age with Kanuhuh
It's either time-travelling or Something is wrong with me
😂😂😂🤣🤣
@bold:

It might be both grin
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by bukatyne(f): 11:13am On Aug 01, 2025
Happy birthday Papilo,

Beauty of using football age; it never leaves you cheesy
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by We4all: 11:13am On Aug 01, 2025
49 to 10 years. That is his real age.
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by lordwoz: 11:15am On Aug 01, 2025
Pygmalionn:
I watched a full grown Kanu play for Ajax when I was in Junior secondary.
And now I'm almost the same age with Kanuhuh
It's either time-travelling or Something is wrong with me 😂😂😂🤣🤣
😂😅 😂 😂
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Pacesetter123(m): 11:16am On Aug 01, 2025
casualobserver:
Kanu is not 49. Abeg Nobody should tell me nonsense.
grin grin cheesy grin grin
No vex,just add the remaining years to him.
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Commentor: 11:20am On Aug 01, 2025
Negroid001:
This man is not 49 jur.

Seun add the remaing characters
He is 63.

He and Barack Obama are age mates.
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Murketeer: 11:22am On Aug 01, 2025
Pygmalionn:
I watched a full grown Kanu play for Ajax when I was in Junior secondary.
And now I'm almost the same age with Kanuhuh
It's either time-travelling or Something is wrong with me 😂😂😂🤣🤣
That Kanu playing for Ayax then … if you check his picture … he cannot be more than 27
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by casualobserver: 11:24am On Aug 01, 2025
Pacesetter123:
grin grin cheesy grin grin
No vex,just add the remaining years to him.
The Kanu I bumped into a few times at a popular joint in Ikeja around 1994 was not 18 years old. I would guess he is probably 54/55 now!
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Murketeer: 11:24am On Aug 01, 2025
AdolfHitlerxXx:
Papillo. Baba is close to 60.

Loved what he did to Dida at Olympics '96
So Presido is only 13 years older than him … it appears Kanu must have good genes … he doesn’t age very quick
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Murketeer: 11:25am On Aug 01, 2025
Commentor:
He is 63.

He and Barack Obama are age mates.
Yet Barack Obama looks older and more frail looking
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by emperor4love(m): 11:26am On Aug 01, 2025
Wit his set in football who are currently 55 to 60, you can't say he is 49,man is way above that from my analysis
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by emperor4love(m): 11:29am On Aug 01, 2025
Kanu should be 52 0r 55 that's range guessing
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Pacesetter123(m): 11:29am On Aug 01, 2025
johngwain:
No Na 29yrs kanu dey, no be only 49yrs, football era don pass nah, make him tell us his real age.. haba
grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
Ahh! Bros dey reason de matter well nah.
You say make him tell us him real age say football era don pass?
The no dey do am like that..oo.
You want make FIFA come collect Nigeria the U-17 world cup wey him win for us?
Or you want make IOC collect us the Olympic Gold Medal wey we win for 96 sake of say him revealed age don show say him bin don pass 23 years?
Abeg make una free my guy.
Him age nah "49" nah wetin international community know about him be dat.
Any new revelation by him now to say otherwise, Oyibo wey dey do things anyhow anyhow with blacks fit come collect all the age grade medals wey him bin don follow participate from Naija.
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Commentor: 11:29am On Aug 01, 2025
Murketeer:
Yet Barack Obama looks older and more frail looking
My point exactly.

Kanu at best, is maybe 3 years older than 49.
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Bahamas95(m): 11:31am On Aug 01, 2025
This man is in his late 50s, nothing wey anybody wan tell me.

Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by olaleke1(m): 11:33am On Aug 01, 2025
Happy Birthday, Papillo...

Age with grace and glory...
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Pharaoh4rin(m): 11:38am On Aug 01, 2025
49 ke. Like the kanu nwankwo I have been hearing since I was a child?
Ba wa 00
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Pacesetter123(m): 11:38am On Aug 01, 2025
casualobserver:
The Kanu I bumped into a few times at a popular joint in Ikeja around 1994 was not 18 years old. I would guess he is probably 54/55 now!
No loud am make FIFA no stay for Switzerland hear you.
1994 above 18? But 1993 he was 16/17 years old for Japan.
grin grin
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Kog45(m): 11:43am On Aug 01, 2025
I watched the same Kanu in Iwuanyawu Nationale jersey against Ranchers bees in 1992 FA cup match in Ilorin,came in second half and scored a goal....after the match I went with few friends to visit him in Nationale camp the old Circular hotel Ilorin....hmmm we hailed him as senior brother but now some of us are older than him going by his age,anyway..... HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEGEND
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by casualobserver: 11:47am On Aug 01, 2025
Pacesetter123:
No loud am make FIFA no stay for Switzerland hear you.
1994 above 18? But 1993 he was 16/17 years old for Japan.
grin grin
Everybody knows footballers in those times all understated their ages. Many of them weren’t discovered until their twenties by which time the only way their could get a contract was to understate their age.

If you disclosed your real age foreign clubs wouldn’t sign you because you would have a low/lower resale value.

Kanu isn’t 60 but he isn’t 49 either.
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Pacesetter123(m): 11:49am On Aug 01, 2025
emperor4love:
Wit his set in football who are currently 55 to 60, you can't say he is 49,man is way above that from my analysis
Joke aside,he maybe using football age,but none of his set in football is up to 60 or very close to 60 as you said.
I hope you know his mates in football?
Don't tell it's Okocha,Finidi George,Sampson Siassia,Amokachi or Equavon.Because they are not his mate.Yes,he may have played with some of them in the Olympic and AFCON but that doesn't make him their mates in football.
Check if Wilson Oruma is celebrating 60 years now or even by next year.
Or if Celestine Babayaro is doing the same,then I will believe you.
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by chuksjuve(m): 11:54am On Aug 01, 2025
Happy birthday Papillo!
King Kanuuuuu…
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by BlueBerry000: 11:55am On Aug 01, 2025
Football age or not, na legend e bi.....

Happy Birthday to Papilo
He made us proud.
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Okeyc230: 12:00pm On Aug 01, 2025
His teeth looks like 59yrs old man. Tell him to open his mouth if not, add 10yrs
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by Adiy(f): 12:05pm On Aug 01, 2025
Happy 49th football age to the legend
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by APOPTOSIS: 12:07pm On Aug 01, 2025
Since that time na 49 him dey now??
Re: Kanu Nwankwo Celebrates His 49th Birthday Today by zomby(m): 12:30pm On Aug 01, 2025
49 or 59? grin grin grin
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