How a Nigerian Footballer Survived Heart Surgery – Kanu Nwankwo

Summary of Kanu Nwankwo Profile 

 

Name:

Nwankwo Kanu

Nationality:

Nigerian

Place of Birth:

Owerri, Nigeria

Date of Birth:

01/08/1976

Height:

197 cm

Weight:

80 kg

National Team:

Nigeria

Current Club:

West Brom (England)

Position:

Forward

Standing tall at 197 cm, football striker Nwankwo Kanu known as 'Kanu' chose football as a profession and began to play at that level as early as age fifteen. The number of trophies won for his country and clubs, over the years is a record targeted by most Nigerian players and yet to be emulated. 

Kanu Nwankwo is the Captain of the Nigerian Super Eagles is a professional footballer. He is a striker for the Nigerian national team and for English club Portsmouth. He is the most highly-decorated African footballer in footballing history, having won a UEFA Champions League medal, a UEFA Cup medal, three F.A. Cup Winners Medals and two African Player of the Year awards, amongst others. He is the only current Premiership player to have won the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, Premiership, FA Cup and an Olympic Gold Medal. He is also a UNICEF ambassador.

 

In 1996, Kanu Nwankwo after his Atlanta  Gold Medal  his soccer career nearly came to an end. He was diagnosed with a heart defect that threatened to cut short an amazing career.. God indeed has a way of saving His own.  Kanu Nwankwo successfully underwent the heart surgery in Cleveland Hospital, Ohio. USA.

 

In the 2000 Kanu Nwankwo, the twice CAF African Footballer of the Year reciprocated the public's concern shown towards him during his rehabilitation period by setting up Kanu Heart Foundation.  The Heart Foundation is indeed the most famous Charity (NGO) organisation in his homeland Nigeria with the aim of serving the entire African continent.   What more can a man give to his own people than assist in putting smiles in the faces of the helpless.  The Kanu Heart Foundation have assisted children with cardiovascular diseases by giving them free treatments abroad.

 

Note the following quotes:

 

“No person was ever honored for what he received. He was honored for what he gave.” – Calvin Coolidge

“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.” — Albert Einstein

“Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.” — John Wesley (1703 – 1791)

“It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.” — Richard Braunstein

 “You can’t have a perfect day without doing something for someone who’ll never be able to repay you.” — John Wooden

“You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” — Zig Ziglar

“If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.” — Billy Graham

 “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” — Jesus, in Acts 20:35

 

Deuteronomy 15:10 - Give generously to him and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to.

 

Proverbs 11:24-25 - There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more, and there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want. The generous man will be prosperous, and he who waters will himself be watered.

 

Luke 6:38 - Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.

 

2 Corinthians 9:6-8 - Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed.