Super Eagles’ captain, Ahmed Musa has put aside his worries over the next club he would play for this season, as the fleet-footed attacker has unveiled his new school complex in the Bukuru community of Jos South local government area in Plateau State, megasportsarena.com reports.
Peculation is still rife over which club Musa will play for in the second half of the current season, following his decision to walk out on his running contract with Al-Nassr of Saudi Arabia, but the former Kano Pillars, VV Van Venlo of Holland, CSKA Moscow of Russia and Leicester City of England star does not appear to be worried.
In 2008, Musa was loaned to JUTH FC of Jos, where he played 18 games, scoring four goals in his first two professional seasons for The Healers and was subsequently loaned to Kano Pillars for the 2009/10 season, during which he went on to set a Nigerian league scoring record, as his team finished second on the log.
Rather than dwell over the next line of action to take in his club career, Musa, who already has two ultra-modern sports centres that he solely sponsored in Kaduna and Kano, has turned his attention fully on putting a centre of academic excellence back into the community that produced him.
The Nigerian captain, whose sports complexes, which both have world class football pitches, tennis courts, swimming pool, indoor sports’ halls, restaurants and offices, said he wants the create more avenues through which more youths can be trained various sporting activities and academics, which made him recently sponsor 100 students for degrees at a private university.
Although he largely identifies with the Edo State ancestry of his late mother from Auchi and Sabon Gida Ora communities, he grew up in Jos and it was in The Tin City that he cut his teeth in the round leather game, before finally getting his breakthrough with Pillars.
It was during his breakthrough season with Sai Masu Gida that Musa emerged top scorer in the Nigeria Professional Football League in 2010, after which he moved to Holland and shot straight into the youth national team, Flying Eagles for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia.
Although the Nigerian team coached by John Sam Obuh and featuring many lads from the silver winning squad of Nigeria 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup on home soil looked very promising with the like of another Jos-boy, Edi Ogenyi Onazi, Kenneth Omeruo and others, the Flying Eagles failed to shine at the competition in Colombia.
Nonetheless, Musa’s career was not blocked in any way, as he excelled with Van Venlo and was soon on his way to Moscow, from where his days in the Super Eagles were sealed, and he is currently Nigeria’s top scorer at the World Cup, following his brace of goals against Argentina at Brazil 2014 and another versus Iceland at Russia 2018.
For now, though, Musa’s thoughts is not on football, as he took time out to reveal through social media that he is excited to unveil the new institution named M&S International School, where he believes the best of education will be handed out to children within and around Bukuru.
Musa stated: “I am not ignorant of the need to give back to my wonderful community and that is why I am excited to announce the commencement of the M & S international school project in Plateau State. Jos South local government Bukuru. Education is the key.”
