“You ever smiled or found joy through your battles? Week two done. Thank you everyone for your prayers. We are making progress. Procedure successful. God is the greatest. Now let’s recover,” stated Kanu, who in an earlier statement stressed the need to finally subject the ankle to the doctor’s scalpel after playing through pains for a long time.

The Nigeria international is being sorely missed by her National Women’s Soccer League club, where she started seven of her 19 appearances in 2023, scoring her first club goal on May 31 against Chicago Red Stars in the Challenge Cup.

Kanu joined Racing after a stellar year at Tigres, where she rang up 20 goals in 30 appearances for the Monterey, Mexico-based club, helping the team claim Liga MX Femenil’s Torneo Apertura trophy.

Before her time in Mexico, Kanu impressed in Sweden’s Damallsvenskan, tallying 22 goals in 42 matches over two years with Linköpings FC. She scored 17 goals in the 2021 season, ranking second in the league.

She also spent part of the pandemic-impacted 2019-20 season in Spain with Sevilla FC, making six appearances for the Spanish club.

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