Super Eagles striker Kelechi Iheanacho says he used to be brilliant in his schooldays until he got into football and his performance took a downward trend.
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Iheanacho made this disclosure in an interview he granted Leicester FC TV wherein he revealed that his parents were initially against him playing football.
He said, “I was in school and doing well but I suddenly I switched to playing football and started going backwards in my studies.
“My parents were not happy. Every time they tried to stop me playing, but I didn’t stop. I was so stubborn. I didn’t listen and kept playing.
“When I would come home after playing they would punish me. One time my mother said that I sh “I had to be carried home once on someone’s back afterwards because I had injured my knees. I was about 10.
“She said: ‘I told you not to go,’ and started to hit me. Before I would have run away but I couldn’t run with broken knees. I just sat there.”
