Football Star Kelechi Iheanacho Full Biography,Life And News

FULL NAME:                      Kelechi Iheanacho

DATE OF BIRTH:              3 October 1996

OCCUPATION:                  Football Player ( Manchester City)

MARITAL STATUS:         Not Married

INTRODUCTION  

 Nigerian professional footballer who plays for English club Manchester City. He has made appearances for Manchester City U-21 team, and also Nigeria U-17 at the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup and Nigeria U-20 at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Iheanacho has also been called up to the Manchester City senior squad for the 2015-16 season.

EARLY LIFE AND BACKGROUND  

Iheanacho has represented Nigeria at youth levels from under-13 upwards. His first experience of a major international tournament was the 2013 African U-17 Championship in Morocco. For Iheanacho, the highlight was a hat-trick in a win against Botswana. He dedicated his goals to his mother, who passed away two months before the tournament. Nigeria reached the final of the competition, where they were defeated on penalties by Ivory Coast. Iheanacho was the second highest goalscorer of the tournament, behind team-mate Success Isaac.
Iheanacho played a significant role in the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup, where he won the “Golden Ball” awarded to the player of the tournament. Nigeria won the competition, in which Iheanacho scored six times, including a goal in the final, and provided seven assists. In the run-up to the 2014 African Nations Championship Iheanacho trained with the senior Nigeria squad, but was released from the squad in order to travel to England to sign with Manchester City. He was part of the Nigeria squad for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand, and featured in two matche
CAREER AND LIFE  

As a youth Iheanacho represented Taye Academy in Owerri. His performances for Nigeria in the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup led to interest from clubs in Europe. Teams following his progress included Arsenal, Sporting Clube de Portugal and Porto. In December 2013 Iheanacho travelled to England to discuss a move to Manchester City. He signed a pre-contract agreement with the club, stating his intent to formally sign for Manchester City on his 18th birthday in October 2014. In the interim, he returned to Nigeria. As the year drew to a close, the Confederation of African Football (the governing body for football in Africa) named him the Most Promising Talent of the Year for 2013 at the CAF Awards.

IHEANACHO’S CONTROVERSIAL JOURNEY TO MAN CIT – Vanguard

The young lad announced his arrival at the world stage the moment he netted four goals past Iraq in his match at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in the UAE last August. He ended up becoming the Most Valuable Player of the competition as well as the second highest goal scorer.  Kelechi and his team-mates from the beginning of the competition to the end stunned the world with their mastery of the game making Nigerians to now see them as the future backbones of the new Eagles Stephen Keshi was helping to mould.

This prompted the NFF and the sports minister, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi announce that the boys would be groomed to becoming great materials for the senior national team by ensuring they don’t jump into wrong hands masquerading as agents of clubs around the world.
However, signs that some parents of the players would mislead the boys because of their greed came to the fore in a hilarious chat the NFF president, Alhaji Aminu Maigari and the sports minister, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi had with one of the parents which veteran sports journalist and CAF/FIFA match commissioner, Paul Bassey published in his column in the Vanguard 2013