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Article: Football: 'Fast cars and big houses? I'd rather spend the money helping my family' ARSENAL'S KANU PICKS UP pounds 20,000 A WEEK...AND SENDS MOST TO HIS HOME VILLAGE IN NIGERIA.(Sport)
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- Sunday Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 2, 1999
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IT'S not only his sized 15 boots that make Arsenal's Kanu stand out from the crowd.
In a week that the Premier League's money-crazy lifestyle has hit the headlines, one of the game's biggest earners has revealed he sends most of his pounds 20,000-a-week salary home to his family in Nigeria.
The giant striker was a millionaire while still in his teens but he still hasn't bought a house in England and spent his early Arsenal career cadging lifts off team-mate Marc Overmars.
Kanu, who comes from the Ibo-tribe in Nigeria, always vowed to look after ...