Abu Kanu
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Abu Kanu | ||
Date of birth | 31 March 1972 | ||
Place of birth | Magburaka, Sierra Leone | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
Freetown United | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1993–1995 | East End Lions | ||
1995–1996 | Spånga IS | ||
1997 | Penang FA | ||
1997–1999 | Slaven Belupo | 32 | (2) |
2008–2009 | Old Edwardians | ||
International career | |||
1990–1997 | Sierra Leone | 15 | (8) |
Managerial career | |||
FC Knokke (youth coach) | |||
Sierra Leone | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Abu Kanu, commonly known as Gbanaloko, (born 31 March 1972 in Magburaka) is a retired Sierra Leonean football striker. Kanu was a member of the Leone Stars squad that participated in the 1994 African Nations Cup in Tunisia. He is the second highest all-time goal scorer for the Sierra Leone national football team with 15 goals, an during his playing days with Sierra Leone, Kanu was most prolific scorer in the team.[citation needed]
Kanu had a spell with NK Slaven Belupo in the Prva HNL.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Statistika: Abu Kanu". Prva Hrvatska nogometna liga. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2009.
External links
[edit]- Abu Kanu at National-Football-Teams.com
Categories:
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Temne people
- Sierra Leonean men's footballers
- Sierra Leone men's international footballers
- 1994 African Cup of Nations players
- 1996 African Cup of Nations players
- Men's association football midfielders
- Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden
- Penang F.C. players
- Expatriate men's footballers in Malaysia
- NK Slaven Belupo players
- Croatian Football League players
- Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia
- Sierra Leonean expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia
- Sierra Leonean expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
- Spånga IS players
- People from Tonkolili District
- Sierra Leonean football biography stubs