Delighted Super Eagles Captain Ahmed Musa Reacts After Winning Special Award Before Sao Tome Cracker

Delighted Super Eagles Captain Ahmed Musa Reacts After Winning Special Award Before Sao Tome Cracker

Babajide Orevba
updated at April 12, 2023 at 8:04 PM
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  • Ahmed Musa was recognised during the Ballers Awards which was held in Lagos two days after Nigeria beat Sierra Leone
  • The Super Eagles captain who has done lots of charity works across the country bagged the ‘Humanitarian of the Year’ award
  • The 29-year-old branded the prize as the ‘highest honour’ and thanked the entire Nigerian football stakeholders and fans

Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa has been recognised for his charity works over the years as the forward bags the Humanitarian of the Year award.

The fourth edition of The Ballers Awards which was held on Sunday, 12 June in Lagos saw the Fatih Karagumruk forward bag the award in style.

Over the years, Musa has been involved in a number of charity works as he recently donated N2million to former defender Kingsley Obiekwu who raised the alarm that he was struggling.

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Ahmed Musa received huge recognition as the humanitarian of the year. Photo: ahmedmusa718
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Earlier in the year, the former CSKA Moscow attacker gifted $1500 to a mosque in Garoua, Cameroon, during the Africa Cup of Nations.

In 2021, Musa donated the sum of two million naira to the Army Day Secondary School in Kano for the construction of a mosque on the school premises.

Soccernet reports that the Super Eagles’ skipper who is currently in Morocco for the 2023 AFCON qualifier against Sao Tome and Principe took to social media to react to the award. He wrote on Facebook:

“I am honoured to be a recipient of this award. Being recognized for my charity work is one of the highest honour a person can wish for.
“I thank the entire Nigerian football stakeholders, fans and the Jury for counting me worthy of this. And special thanks to the organizers for putting the award show together. God bless.”

Musa pleads with Nigerians to be patient with new Super Eagles players

Meanwhile, Musa has admitted that Nigerians are still disappointed over the team’s failure to qualify for the World Cup, but assured they will bounce back to winning ways.

Nigeria fought back to defeat Sierra Leone 2-1 in Match Day 1 of the 2023 AFCON qualifier at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja.

The visitors went ahead in the 11th minute courtesy of a flying header by Jonathan Morsay, but Alex Iwobi restored parity five minutes later.

Nigerian boy delighted to play alongside legendary Mikel Obi

Sports Brief earlier reported that former Nigerian international Mikel Obi was at the famous Unilag Sports Complex for his Back2Base talent hunt programme which kicked off on Thursday, June 9.

The Nigerian ex-international and former Chelsea star, along with his partners, launched a three-day talent hunt programme in Lagos.

The project was launched in the player’s bid to give back to society in the area of discovering talents.

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Babajide Orevba is a CAF accredited Nigerian journalist and HOD of the Local Desk with over 10 years of experience in media landscape.He studied NCE Political Science/Social Studies, AOCOED.
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