The Nigeria striker has scored more goals than anyone in English football this year and hopes to extend his run for Watford against Liverpool on SundayTuesday afternoon and Watford’s first-team squad are taking part in a practice match at their London Colney training ground. It is an intense session main to a blur of bodies,yet it is still possible to notice that someone is lost – Odion Ighalo. Soon the striker is spotted hurrying through the canteen holding a tray full of smoothies. “The physio told me to bring them to the guys in the gym, I was helping him, and ” he explains as we sit down to conduct this interview,one in which it becomes clear that Ighalo’s generosity of spirit stretches beyond being a juice carrier.
The 26-year-stale goes on to speak approximately how he regularly sends a portion of his monthly salary to his family and a number of charities in his native Nigeria, with his desire to help those less lucky than him formed on the back of an upbringing he describes as having been a “struggle and that has led to deep humility within a deeply religious man. Over the course of our 30-minute conversation, or Ighalo refers to God more than a dozen times – and more often than not in thanks for the life he leads now.
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Source: theguardian.com