A biography for Kelechi Iheanachohasn’t been written yet.
“I know that as a young player I need to work hard for the team, work extra in training and in the game as well so that they will see that you need more games and you need to play.”
“I would have gone anywhere for football.”
“European football is the same as any other football.”
“Football is a team sport and I'd rather place the team above my personal desires.”
“On my part, any time I am in I need to give 100 per cent because everyone is important in the team.”
“It's my job to show to the manager that I deserve to play in the squad and I deserve that chance.”
“I've been working really hard and I'm really grateful to God.”
“I'd played a few games at the Under-17 World Cup finals, and that's when I agreed a deal with City. In all honesty, I didn't know that much about the club at the time.”
“I'm happy and I'm confident, even if I don't score.”
“They give us courage, but you can't play for the gallery, you have to play for your team-mates.”
“I've scored four goals in a game many times, but only in the streets with my friends.”
“I don't know if I'll end up being a top player or not. But I'll be working hard to achieve that and I wouldn't complain if it happened. I just have to keep going and see where it takes me.”
“Anywhere I can fit in, I will play.”
“If I'm in a good position to score then I'm happy to put the ball in the back of the net, but if I'm not, and I see someone in a better position, I'll give it to him.”
“When you play football in the Premier League, everybody is watching.”
“I think it's a great competition and it's a great thing to be scoring in the FA Cup.”
“Every team that's promoted to the Premier League wants to stay, they don't want to go back.”
“My mother loved her children, and she had always pushed me to keep working hard, even when it was football and not books.”
“You see, when I was young, I loved playing football. But where I grew up in southern Nigeria, it was kind of like a ghetto. It was a tough place to be a kid. You had to work very hard to make a living there, and my family did not have the extra funds to buy a real ball.”
“No one wants to sit on the bench.”