{"id":310607,"date":"2011-03-15T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/15\/nigeria-kanu-plans-for-testimonial\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T08:34:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T08:34:08","slug":"nigeria-kanu-plans-for-testimonial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/15\/nigeria-kanu-plans-for-testimonial\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Kanu Plans for Testimonial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"37.2068965517\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentngonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Independent<\/a> (Lagos)\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>14 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Nwankwo Kanu will officially call time on his international career during a testimonial game in Lagos in June. The former Nigeria captain, who turns 35 in August, has not been involved in the Nigeria set up since last year&#8217;s World Cup in South Africa and friends of the Portsmouth forward a planning a testimonial game for him.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of my friends are planning to have a testimonial for me in June,&#8221; Kanu told KickOffNigeria.com. &#8220;I think after 17 years in the national team, they appreciate what I have done and want to give me a befitting send off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The game will be organised by World Wide Ventures and is expected to feature Kanu&#8217;s former team mates from Ajax, Inter Milan, Arsenal, West Brom and Portsmouth along with some selected star players.<\/p>\n<p>They will line up against a Nigeria All Star team dating from the Super Eagles teams of 1993\/94, the Olympic gold medal winning team of 1996, and some players of the current Eagles squad who played with Kanu.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103150270.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Kanu Plans for Testimonial\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Kanu Plans for Testimonial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Daily Independent (Lagos) 14 March 2011 Nwankwo Kanu will officially call time on his international career during a testimonial game in Lagos in June. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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