Kelechi Iheanacho

nigerian association football actor
This article is about the football player born in 1996. For the football player born in 1981, see Kelechi Iheanacho ( football player, bear 1981 )
Kelechi Promise Iheanacho ( bear 3 October 1996 ) is a nigerian professional football player who plays as a forward for Premier League clubhouse Leicester City and the Nigeria national team.

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Iheanacho began his elder career at Manchester City during the 2015–16 season. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He moved to Leicester City in 2017 for a reported £25 million tip. Iheanacho was separate of the Nigeria team that won the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup and the Nigeria U-20 team at the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] He made his aged debut for Nigeria in 2015, and played at the 2018 FIFA World Cup .

Club career [edit ]

Manchester City [edit ]

early career [edit ]

Iheanacho was born in Owerri, Imo State. [ 9 ] As a young person, he represented Taye Academy in Owerri, the capital city of Imo. His performances for Nigeria in the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup led to interest from clubs in Europe ; teams following his advance included Arsenal, [ 10 ] Sporting CP and Porto. [ 11 ] In December 2012, Iheanacho travelled to England to discuss a move to Manchester City. He signed a pre-contract agreement with the club, stating his captive to formally sign for City on his 18th birthday in October 2014. [ 12 ] In the interim, he returned to Nigeria. As the class drew to a close, the Confederation of African Football ( CAF ) named him the Most predict talent of the class for 2013 at the CAF Awards. [ 13 ] Iheanacho joined Manchester City ‘s Academy on 10 January 2015. Before the 2014–15 temper, City visited the United States on a pre-season tour, and although still not formally a City actor, he joined up with the police squad. He played and scored in the first equal of the enlistment, a 4–1 acquire against Sporting Kansas City, [ 14 ] and scored again against Milan in a 5–1 acquire. [ 15 ] After the decision of the go, Manchester City arranged for Iheanacho to train with the Columbus Crew until mid-October. [ 16 ] Delays in obtaining a work permit meant Iheanacho was unable to play in England until February 2015. He made his debut at under-19 level in a UEFA Youth League catch against Schalke 04, but sustained an injury after lone 11 minutes. [ 17 ] After his recovery, he began to represent Manchester City at both youth and under-21 flush in the latter part of the season. He played in the FA Youth Cup final, where he scored, but ended on the lose slope after Chelsea claimed a 5–2 sum victory. [ 18 ] The follow week, he scored the only goal as Manchester City beat Porto in the concluding of the 2014–15 Premier League International Cup. [ 19 ]

2015–16 season [edit ]

In July 2015, Iheanacho was included in City ‘s pre-season tour team in Australia. [ 20 ] On the tour, he set up the first goal for Raheem Sterling and scored the second finish in the win against Roma in the 2015 International Champions Cup. He besides set up sterling for the fourth finish in City ‘s 8–1 victory against the Vietnam national team. In City ‘s final preseason game, against VfB Stuttgart, he came on as a substitute, scoring late on in a 4–2 kill. due to his impressive pre-season, Iheanacho was promoted to the Manchester City senior team. [ 21 ] On 10 August 2015, Iheanacho was included in a first-team matchday squad for the first gear time in a competitive fixture, however he remained an unused substitute in their 3–0 win at West Bromwich Albion in their first game of the Premier League season. [ 22 ] Nineteen days by and by, he made his competitive debut, replacing Raheem Sterling for the final minute of a 2–0 winnings against Watford at the City of Manchester Stadium. [ 23 ] He scored his first base competitive finish on 12 September, replacing Wilfried Bony in the concluding minute in a meet away to Crystal Palace and scoring the only goal of the game. [ 24 ] Iheanacho scored his first career hat-trick on 30 January 2016 against Aston Villa in the fourthly circle of the FA Cup, besides setting up City ‘s one-fourth finish, scored by Raheem Sterling. [ 25 ] The following month, he was put in City ‘s UEFA Champions League police squad at the expense of the hurt Samir Nasri. [ 26 ] During February, Iheanacho scored against Tottenham Hotspur in a 2–1 home defeat for City. [ 27 ] Iheanacho ‘s adjacent goals came on 23 April 2016, where he scored doubly against Stoke City in a 4–0 victory. [ 28 ] He followed this up with a Champions League semi-final utility appearance on 26 April 2016. [ 29 ] Five days later, on 1 May 2016, he scored two again, albeit in a 4–2 kill at the hands of Southampton. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Iheanacho ended the 2015–16 season with eight Premier League goals and had the best goals-per-minute proportion of any player, averaging a goal every 93.9 minutes. [ 32 ] In all competitions he finished with a criminal record of 14 goals and 5 assists from 35 appearances, although he entirely started 11 of these games. [ 33 ] His goals sum besides meant he ended the season as City ‘s third-highest scorekeeper. [ 34 ]

2016–17 season [edit ]

On 10 September 2016, Iheanacho started in the Manchester bowler hat. He recorded an serve and his first goal of the season in a 2–1 gain for City. [ 35 ] Four days later, Iheanacho came off the bench to score the final goal in City ‘s 4–0 home win in the Champions League, against Borussia Mönchengladbach. [ 36 ] This was his first european finish for Manchester City. Three days after the 4–0 acquire, Iheanacho scored the second goal, besides assisting the third gear, in City ‘s plot against AFC Bournemouth. [ 37 ] That finish took his match in the Premier League to 10, allowing him to join an exclusive list of players to have scored 10 Premier League goals before the age of 20. This list includes players such as Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, Nicolas Anelka, Michael Owen and Romelu Lukaku. [ 31 ] [ 38 ] In October 2016, Iheanacho was nominated for the FIFA Golden Boy award, which was finally won by Bayern Munich ‘s midfielder Renato Sanches. [ 39 ] former winners of the award include teammates Raheem Sterling and Sergio Agüero, and six-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi. [ 40 ] Iheanacho ‘s next goal would come in the Champions League, against Celtic, in a 1–1 home disembowel on 6 December 2016. [ 41 ] Iheanacho ‘s final goal of the temper, and subsequently concluding goal for City, came against Huddersfield in a 5–1 FA Cup fifth round replay succeed, in which Iheanacho scored the final goal of the game. [ 42 ]

Leicester City [edit ]

Iheanacho was signed by Premier League club Leicester City on a five-year sign on 3 August 2017, [ 43 ] for a reported £25 million tip. [ 44 ] He made his debut for the club in a 4–3 get the better of to Arsenal on 11 August 2017. [ 45 ] He scored his first goal for Leicester in an EFL Cup tie against Leeds United on 24 October 2017. [ 46 ] On 16 January 2018, Iheanacho became the first musician in English football to be awarded a goal due to VAR, as the reviewer deemed that the actor had been falsely ruled offside for his second finish. The finish was Iheanacho ‘s second in a 2–0 gain over Fleetwood Town in the FA Cup Third Round replay. [ 47 ]

2020–21 season [edit ]

Iheanacho was n’t in the first-choice starting eleven at the start of the season, and has only started two of Leicester ‘s first base 21 Premier League games. however, several injuries to key players meant that Iheanacho got an extend prevail of games. [ 48 ] Iheanacho then went on a goalscoring carry of 12 goals in 10 games in all competitions during March and April.

2021–22 season [edit ]

Iheanacho and Leicester started the 2021–22 season with the 2021 FA Community Shield against Manchester City. Iheanacho was substituted on during the 79th moment and scored the winning goal, an 89th-minute penalty against his erstwhile clubhouse. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] [ 57 ]

International career [edit ]

Iheanacho with Nigeria in 2017 Iheanacho has represented Nigeria at young levels from under-13 upwards. [ 58 ] 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 succeed against Botswana. He dedicated his goals to his mother, who died two months before the tournament. [ 59 ] Nigeria reached the final of the competition, where they were defeated on penalties by the Ivory Coast. [ 60 ] Iheanacho played a meaning function in the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup, where he won the Golden Ball award for player of the tournament. [ 61 ] Nigeria won the competition, in which Iheanacho scored six times, including once in the final, and provided seven assists. [ 61 ] [ 62 ] In the runup to the 2014 african Nations Championship, Iheanacho trained with the senior Nigeria team but was released from the squad in arrange to travel to England to sign with Manchester City. [ 63 ] He was part of the Nigeria police squad for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand, and featured in two matches. [ 64 ] He was selected by Nigeria for their 35-man probationary squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics, but failed to make the final 18. [ 65 ] Iheanacho made his senior introduction as a substitute in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying catch against Eswatini in which Nigeria drew 0–0. [ 66 ] His first start for the senior team was on 25 March 2016, a 1–1 draw with Egypt in a 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match. [ 67 ] Iheanacho was selected by Nigeria in friendly games against Mali and Luxembourg in May 2016. He scored in the two games, providing an assist against Luxembourg. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] His performance in the friendly matches inspired far confidence within football circles in the nation and was invited to make his competitive debut against Egypt in an african Cup of Nations qualifying series where he provided an assist for Oghenekaro Etebo in the home plate game. [ 70 ] Despite the change made in the coach personnel in August this class, he distinguished himself again as one of the most important players in the team when he scored two superintendent goals in the two matches against Tanzania in Uyo and Zambia in Ndola. [ 71 ] In May 2018 he was named in Nigeria ‘s preliminary 30-man police squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. [ 72 ]

personal animation [edit ]

Iheanacho is from the Igbo heathen group of Nigeria. [ 73 ]

career statistics [edit ]

club [edit ]

As of match played 4 November 2021

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club

Season

League

FA Cup
League Cup

Europe

Other

Total

Division
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals

Manchester City
2015–16[74]
Premier League

26
8
3
4
2
2
4[a]
0
—
35
14

2016–17[75]

Premier League

20
4
3
1
2
0
4[a]
2
—
29
7

Total

46
12
6
5
4
2
8
2
—
64
21

Leicester City
2017–18[76]

Premier League

21
3
5
4
2
1
—
—
28
8

2018–19[77]

Premier League

30
1
1
0
4
1
—
—
35
2

2019–20[78]

Premier League

20
5
2
1
4
4
—
—
26
10

2020–21[79]

Premier League

25
12
6
4
1
0
7[b]
3
—
39
19

2021–22[80]

Premier League

10
1
0
0
2
1
3[b]
0
1[c]
1
16
3

Total

106
22
14
9
13
7
10
3
1
1
144
42

Career total

152
34
20
14
17
9
18
5
1
1
208
63

International [edit ]

As of match played 16 November 2021[81]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team
Year
Apps
Goals

Nigeria

2015
1
0

2016
6
4

2017
7
4

2018
11
0

2020
4
1

2021
9
2

Total
38
11

Nigeria score listed first, score column indicates score after each Iheanacho goal.[81]

Honours [edit ]

Manchester City
Leicester City
Nigeria U17
Individual

References [edit ]

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