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As MandyNews.com wish all Nairalanders a 'Happy New Month' we also celebrate Nigeria's football hero Kanu Nwankwo as he clocks 42 today, August 1st

Let's check out 10 facts about Nwankwo Kanu below.

1. Kanu was born on the Nkwo market day and that led to him being named 'Nwankwo', born on Nkwo day.

2. He started out his professional career with Iwuanyanwu Nationale in the Nigeria Professional Football League in the 1992/93 season after impressing at Holy Ghost College in Owerri.

3.He played for Iwuanyanwu Nationale, Ajax, Inter Milan, Arsenal, West Bromwich Albion and Portsmouth in his career that spanned 20 years.

4.Kanu is the first and only Nigerian footballer to be named African Player of the Year twice.

5.He captained the Dream Team, Nigeria's U23 team, to win Gold at the Atlanta '96 Olympics in the United States of America, the first time a team outside of Europe and South America had won the title.

6. In 2016, Kanu was named one of the 48 greatest footballers ever by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS).

7.He featured in three World Cups (1998, 2002 & 2010) and six Africa Cup of Nations tournaments (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010).

8. Kanu was also a member of the Arsenal ‘Invincibles’, the Arsene Wenger-led side that went a whole season undefeated in the English Premier League

9.Papilo is an Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), the sixth highest Nigerian national honour.

10.In 2014, the Nigerian government named Kanu among the 100 most distinguished Nigerians during a ceremony to mark the centenary of the unification of Northern and Southern Nigeria.

Source: http://mandynews.com/2018/08/01/nwankwo-kanu-celebrates-his-42nd-birthday/

Wish him happy birthday below

Happy birthday Papilo!



Your mama talk am say one day you go make us proud, and you did. God bless you, sir.

Please Add... he is married to his sweet beautiful wife Amara Kanu ( née Onyeador) author living healthy with Amara Kanu

Happy Birthday, Papilooo our football legend.





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Happy Birthday to Papilo.. You have really made us proud

The beauty of a Nigerian age, it simply just carries on (well, until you start using walking stick at 45).............

Happy birthday to Nigeria greatest footballer. I'm still hoping and waiting for players of is kind!!!

Happy birthday Papilo!
You really made us proud!


The guy below me..... see your teeth

1acre:
Please Add... he is married to his sweet beautiful wife Amara Kanu ( née Onyeador) author living healthy with Amara Kanu

Marriage is not an achievement.

11) As a young boy, he loved drinking Peak milk.
Hbd Papillo.

Happy Birthday to my fellow August born


We rock
God'sGood

If God want to bless you.......he will overlook your lies....

I was still a baby when this guy started playing foot ball. And he is only just 42.

Happy Birthday

ireneidiva:
Marriage is not an achievement.

Why?

Also add he married a kid
That can be called subtle child abuse abeg

HBD Sir papilo. I love you

lovely lovely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkpDupqig-Y made in gidi last night commotion

Happy birthday Kanu!

bjt:
Why?

Great question

Happy Birthday Big Broski. Imo state men have some kind of swag

Happy birthday Papilo.
You've been making us proud since 1993.

Happy birthday Legend.. Long life Sir.

Happy birthday Nwankwo. You have always made us proud.

42?that means kanu is like 50.

1acre:
Please Add... he is married to his sweet beautiful wife Amara Kanu ( née Onyeador) author living healthy with Amara Kanu

The one that insults his family?that was why they forgot to mention her.

Bitterleafsoup:
Great question

Happy Birthday Big Broski. Imo state men have some kind of swag

He is from Abia state na.

Weda u call am Kanu abi na Kunu,
weda u call am Unu abi na Jugunu,
wetin i know be say my guy e the ball, wetin i know be say e name na Papilo, e go with the ball,
he pass am to Okocha,
Okocha to Oliseh, Oliseh to Finidi,
Finidi to the post oo.

Kanu nwankwo ai ge we mmeri *2
Papilo Kanu ai ge nwe nmeri *2

If you don't know the song above, Abeg greet well before you argue with anyone on Nairaland.

Happy Birthday to Papilo

Can someone pls help upload that Kanu's peak advert? Anytime I watch that I always shed tears.