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Kanu undergoes successful surgery on lingering injury

“Procedure successful! God is the greatest. Now, let’s recover. Last slide: my AT won’t stop cracking me up,” stated the vastly travelled player with 20 goals in 31 outings with the Super Falcons after excelling at the U-17 and U-20 levels for Nigeria.

Kanu had last week, in a video, announced her decision to finally allow the leg to fall under the doctor’s scalpel, promising to race through the recovery process and urging her fans to pray for her.

She was sorely missed by Racing Louisville FC during Saturday’s 1-0 defeat to Bay FC at PayPal Park, San Jose, California, where Nigerian teammate Asisat Oshoala’s second-half goal made the difference.

Reflecting on the loss that nudged Racing into 11th place and four points off the postseason cutline ahead of another critical battle next Saturday at home against ninth-place Angel City, their defender Abby Erceg bemoaned their inability to score goal in the absence of Kanu.

She said, “But again, we’re failing to score goals in games, and I think we need to score goals and put teams away early. I think the opportunities were there, but Bay played well as well. You can’t take that away from them.”