Ahmed Musa: The Untold Story Of A Humanitarian
BY HARUNA ADAMU DOCTOR
According to J. K. Rowling, author, philanthropist, and founder of the children’s charity once said something that is very instructive about life. He said; “The power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees prisoners. Ordinary people, whose personal well-being and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know and will never meet. Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experience. They can think themselves into other people’s places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”
This described a Nigerian who have been guided by the Almighty Allah to remember those he left behind to lift them up through his humanitarian assistance to millions of Nigerians from the North down to the South. Ahmed Musa, is a Nigerian professional footballer born in 1992. He became the first Nigerian to score more than once in a FIFA World Cup match, after scoring twice against Argentina in the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Musa is also the first Nigerian to score in two FIFA World Cup competitions, after scoring twice against Iceland in the group stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. He was Nigeria Premier League Top Scorer 2009 –10. He was named among the list of 33 best football players of the championship of Russia 2012/13; Russian Cup Top Scorer 2012/13; and CAF Team of the Year 2014.
The young talented Musa started his career at GBS Football Academy (2005–2008), JUTH (loan) – (2009–2010), Kano Pillars (loan) – (2010–2012), VVV-Venlo (2012–2016), CSKA Moscow (2016–2018), Leicester City (2018), CSKA Moscow (loan) – (2018–2020), Al Nassr (2021), Kano Pillars (2021) and currently playing for Fatih Karagümrük. He joined the Nigerian under 20 in 2011 and Since then he has been in the Nigerian National team. He is a receiver of many personal awards and honours. He won Russian Premier League in 2012/13, 2013/14, and 2015/16, Russian Cup 2012/13 and Russian Super Cup 2013/2014. He has also won at Al-Nassr the Saudi Professional League 2018/19 and Saudi Super Cup 2019. As the Nigerian international, he has won African Youth Championship 2011, WAFU Nations Cup – 2010 and Africa Cup of Nations 2013.
Musa is a breed of the renown football guru and coach based in Bukuru Ahmed Ibrahim popular known as Coach Bros who has over the years groomed a number of footballers including my humble self. The likes of Moses Simon, Samuel Kalu, Kingsley Madu and Rueben Gabriel are few among too many to mention players that benefited from Ibrahim Ahmed (Coach Bros) mentorship at Aminci football Academy. There are many other players who valued Coach Bros as their mentor and most of them visits Aminci Football Academy during their holidays. These include the likes of John Obi Mikel, Ezekiel Bala and host of others.
The young Ahmed Musa as the Almighty Allah is today as inspiration to many having succeeded in his career of footballers as has made million of dollars to his account. Aside from being the captain of Super Eagles and his fortune to play at International level, he has proved beyond oratory speeches that ego is never a way of life as he is one and only successful Nigerian footballer alive that has put smiles to hundreds of Nigerians, his immediate community, ex-footballers, widows, young men and women, his mentor (Coach Bros) and host of others.
This is a young man who donated the sum of two (2) million Naira to support 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist, Kingsley Obiekwelu who was reported to be working as a driver in Enugu. He has built a multi-million Naira Sports complex centre in Kaduna state with a world class training facilities such as football pitches, tennis court, an Olympics swimming, a hall for indoor sports, restaurant, car lots and offices which created a thousands of employment to the Nigerian teaming Youths.
Similar facilities known as Ahmed Musa sport centre was built in Kano to train more youths in various sporting activities. He had also sponsored 100 students in Kano to get university degrees from a private university. His name has been on the air recently when he distributed a whopping sum of 100m to windows in Jos, Plateau State as a cash flow to run business of different kind.
Ahmed Musa is second to none compared to his contemporaries and his name is currently the tune of many young aspiring Nigerians beyond the football constituency for his outstanding sacrifices and contributions towards lifting hundreds if not thousands out of poverty.
History will be kind to him and posterity will judge him well for remembering those that he left behind.
Doctor, who is an Ex-Aminci and Bokkos United footballer, writes from Bokkos
