{"id":3005,"date":"2012-10-29T14:44:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T14:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2012-10-29T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T14:44:27","slug":"papilo-kanu-nkwankwo-the-concluding-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=3005","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Papilo\u2019 Kanu Nkwankwo    (The concluding part)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kanu1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3006\" title=\"kanu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kanu1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kanu1.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kanu1-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kanu led the top score\u2019s chart early in the season of 2006-07 and finished as the top goal scorer for Portsmouth, netting 12 goals.<\/p>\n<p>In his second season at Portsmouth, Kanu scored both the FA cup 1-0 semi-final win against west Brom Albion and the 1-0 win in the final against Cardiff city earning him a third FA cup winner\u2019s medal.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Nigeria, Kanu has been a member of the senior national team since making his debut in 1994 against Sweden in a friendly.<\/p>\n<p>As at November 16, 2009 Kanu had 79 caps scoring 13 goals for Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from winning the Olympic goal in the football event at Atlanta \u201996, Kanu also participated in the 1998, 2002 and 2010 world cups.<\/p>\n<p>Off the pitch, Kanu works so hard to improve the lives of others via his philanthropic works he has made a priority because of his heart surgery experience. For this reason, he set up a non-government organization, Kanu heart foundation in 2000 whose sole mission is to raise funds to help children with heart ailments.<\/p>\n<p>Following his exploits in the round Leather game and his humanitarian services Kanu has been made a UNICEF ambassador. He also, the Nigerian football Ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>Kanu was last year named as the special Adviser on sports matters to the Imo state Governor, Rochas Anayo Okorocha.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kanu Honours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Country: \u00a0<\/span>&#8211; FIFA \u00a0It 17 world cup, 1993<\/p>\n<p>FIFA world cup Appearances, 1998, 2002 and 2010<\/p>\n<p>AFCON appearances 2000 (silver) 2002 (Bronze), 2004 (Bronze), 2006 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Bronze) 2008 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic games, 1996 (Gold medal)<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian league: 1992-3 (Iwuanyanwu National League win)<\/p>\n<p>Eredivise: (Holland), Three time league winner, \u201993-4,\u201994-5, and \u201995-6 with Ajax Fc. Also won the UEFA champions league in \u201995, the super year with Ajax and the intercontinental cup.<\/p>\n<p>He also won the UEFA winners cup with Internazional Milan in \u201997-8.<\/p>\n<p>Won 3 English premier League with Arsenal in 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04. Also won 3 FA cup\u2019s in 2001-02 and 2002-03(Arsenal) and 2007-08 (Portsmouth) Also won the charity shield in 1999(Arsenal).<\/p>\n<p>Won the African footballer of the year twice in 1996 and 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Watch out next week for Austin \u2018Jay Jay\u2019 Okocha\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Kanu led the top score\u2019s chart early in the season of 2006-07 and finished<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=13\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3007,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions\/3007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}