Facts about Ahmed Musa

Reaching fame in the football world is a process in which players spend several years of their lives on. Through endless effort, they try to enhance their playing level to a professional one and make career history full of honors ad achievements for themselves.

Though sometimes, we see that through performing excellently and leaving unforgettable scenes, they earn much reputation, they have gained them gradually by much work. In the following article, we have presented a group of top facts about Ahmed Musa and cover his life off and on the pitch.

The Nigerian professional football player currently plays for Faith Karagumruk, a Turkish Super Lig club, and his national team. One of the memorable scenes in his career history was in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, in which he scored two goals in the match against Argentina.

Following his performance, Musa became the first Nigerian player who could do it in a FIFA World Cup competition more than one time. Also, his two goals against Iceland in the group stage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup matches made him the first football player from Nigeria to net in two FIFA World Cup tournaments.

In 2019, while he was playing for the Al Nassr team, his team won the Saudi Premi League and Saudi Super Cup. To know more about the Nigerian footballer, stay with us until the end of the article. 

Top Facts about Ahmed Musa

Before going through the details regarding both personal and professional facts about Ahmed Musa, we have prepared a shortlist, which will help you to get enough about him as fast as possible. 

• Full Name: Ahmed Musa

• Nickname: Myca, The Governor

• Nationality: Nigerian

• Age: 28

• Date of Birth: 14 October 1992

• Place of Birth: Jos, Nigeria

• Team(s): GBS Football Academy, JUTH (loan), Kano Pillars, VVV-Venlo (loan), CSKA Moscow, Leicester City, Al Nassr, Fatih Karagumruk

• Position: Winger

Without further ado, let's start to read more 

facts about Ahmed Musa

 in the following text, which his biography has a lot to say from his childhood till now that he is a professional footballer in the football world. 

Ahmed Musa Early Life

We have allotted the first part of the text to the info about 

Ahmed Musa early life

. Musa's performance in the World Cup braces for his country in 2014 and 2018 earned him much reputation and caused his name to be amongst the top stars of Nigeria. However, not many fans know about how he spent the years from his childhood to the days he became a prominent footballer. 

Born on 14 October 1992, Ahmed Musa has taken the title "a J-town boy" due to his birth in Jos, Plateau. It uses to describe males born in the area in Nigeria. The Nigerians usually use it for those who live in the city he was born.

Unfortunately, Ahmed lost his father when he was so young. It had not taken too much time which Ahmed, the youngest child of his mother, followed in his father's footsteps, and through performing the role of breadwinner, helped his mother handle their family.

To describe how much Ahmed was helpful for his mother, Sarah Moses said, "My son has been the breadwinner of the family and even our extended family members. He is taking good care of all of us." 

Ahmed Musa Parents

Alhaji Musa, a polygamist, and Sarah Moses, his second wife, are 

Ahmed Musa parents

. However, Sarah Moses raised him single-handedly in Edo State after Alhaji's death while Ahmed was only a 7-year-old child.

At the time, Sarah had the responsibility of upbringing not only Ahmed but his four sisters. Playing the role of both a mother and a father for five children was so difficult for her, which Sarah Moses recalls the days as a piece of a cake if late Alhaji Musa were alive.

She described him and revealed to Sporting Life, "My late husband 'Musa,' the father of Ahmed, was a kind and caring man. He was a very generous man who took care of all his wives before he died."

Ahmed Musa Wife 

Almost always, football fans have been interested in knowing the love story of their heroes. That is why we have allocated one part to the topic of 

Ahmed Musa wife

. The Nigerian footballer has married two times, which the exact date of his first marriage with Jamila Musa is still unclear. As the news shows, his experience in love stories has not been as successful as his life on the pitch. 

After his marriage with Jamila, his first wife, in 2013, sharing a post on his Instagram aroused an argument between Ahmed and Jamila. It was about the birthday of his girlfriend at the time, who later became his second wife. Getting held Ahmed's Instagram post, Jamila found his husband was in a relationship with another girl, whom Ahmed had called his queen, Juliet Adeh Ujue. 

He had posted that, "On this special day, may you have all the joy, your heart can hold, all the smiles a day can bring, and all the blessings a day can unfold. May God bestow you with His bounties and blessings. Happy Birthday, My Queen." 

Following reading the post and becoming angry, a loud argument occurred between Jamila and Ahmed, which led their UK neighbors to call the police. They quizzed Ahmed due to his wife's attack.

However, the police released him when they became sure that Ahmed had not beaten Jamila. So, 2017 was the end of their love story.The revealed information about Juliet Ujue says that she is a Model and a Christian who graduated from the University of Lagos.

Being from Calabar in Cross River State, Juliet met Ahmed after the FIFA World Cup in 2014 at a function. At the time, Ahmed was in Nigeria on vacation and had participated in an event in which he met Juliet. It was the start of their lovely relationship. The couple announced their relationship on 25 March 2017 and held their court wedding two months later on 24 May at the Ikoyi Magistrate Court.

Though based on their religion, Ahmed was allowed to marry up to four times as long as he could love and cater for each of his wives evenly, his first wife, Jamila, reemphasized that she would prefer to leave Ahmed's house instead of playing the role of the Senior Wife for Juliet. 

Reportedly, Jamila and Ahmed's two children have returned to Kano from England. However, it is not the whole story about Ahmed Musa's wife. As the news says, Ahmed has married another woman recently, and they did it in a quiet ceremony. Taiwo Okanlawon has published some reports regarding another marriage in a secret ceremony.

Though he has gotten married three times, due to the crash of his marriage with Jamila, he has two wives currently. There is no info regarding how and when Ahmed met his second wife, Mariam, for the first time. Based on multiple released reports, Mariam is a Shuwa woman, officially Ahmed's current second wife. 

Ahmed Musa Children

Due to three marriages that the current player of Faith Karagumruk, Ahmed Musa, has had, you might be wondering whether he has any children or not. The fact about 

Ahmed Musa children

 is that he has four children now. 

Ahmed has two children through his first marriage with Jamila. One of them is a boy, Ahmed Musa Jr, which is now about eight years. The other child is a girl, Halima Musa, which is two years younger than his brother. After their parents' separation, they have left for Kano and live with their mother. Ahmed has two more children from Juliet, but there is no information about them. 

Like all other outstanding characters in sports or any other field, whose personal lives are amongst the most visited topics for people and their fans, Ahmed Musa's life off the pitch has been the same.

Based on the posts he has published regarding his decisions for his marriages, it might mean that many people have judged him. He has said that "Who are you to judge the life I live? I am not perfect, and I do not have to be." Ahmed also mentioned that "Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean." 

Ahmed Musa Instagram

Nowadays, social media has become a tool by which prominent people can share every event related to their personal and professional lives, and their fans follow them. If you glance briefly at

Ahmed Musa Instagram

,

, you will see that 638k football fans have followed him at the moments of writing the article.

Amongst the 425 posts that he has shared currently, you can see that their topics are not only about his personal and professional life. He has also posted about some social events. One of the recent ones is about the painful situation which has happened to his hometown.

By posting a video, he described his feeling about his people and said, "It breaks my heart to see these recent happenings/killings. Plateau state, the home of peace and tourism, is now going through a bad state of unrest." He additionally wrote, "I am urging the government to do right by the people before this goes out of hand. It is not what we voted for it. Let's love lead and let peace reign."

Based on the content of his posts, it seems that Ahmed Musa uses Instagram not only as a tool to share the related photos to his personal life and his profession but as a platform to say his words about his social events.

Ahmed Musa Net Worth

If you glance briefly at the names of players on the list of the top 10 richest footballers in Nigeria in 2021, you will see that Ahmed Musa is the sixth player among them. He spent most of his career in two countries amongst the richest ones in the football world.

Playing for

and

earned him about ₦6.5 billion value. However, nowadays that the player is playing for his home club Kano Pillars, 

Ahmed Musa net worth

 has kept his position among the richest footballers in his country in 2021. 

While he was a player of

in England, his weekly salary was about $43,000. Then, when he joined the Saudi Arabian team, Al-Nassr, through making 60,000 pounds a week, which was a whopping amount, he became one of the players whose names are on the Nigerian players' list with the highest amount of net worth. 

The rich Nigerian footballer has several expensive cars. One of them is a Range Rover Sport which he bought in 2013 and is worth $50,000. He purchased a Range Rover Velar in 2018 that cost him $60,500.

Ahmed Musa is also the owner of a 127,650-dollar Mercedes Benz G-Wagon. Two of the other expensive properties which belong to the Nigerian winger are his mansion in Nigeria and a barbing saloon in Kanu, worth N500 million. 

Short Facts about Ahmed Musa

-Usually, the published news about the footballers' personal and professional lives provides an image from their personalities in the minds of their fans. Whether the conceptions are true or false, football players have imaginative personalities among football fans, such as Ahmed Musa, whose several marriages have brought him many judgments.

His argument with his wife unveiled some 

facts about Ahmed Musa

's personality out of football. Unlike many believes about Musa's hot-tempered character, his neighbors described him differently.

Following the argument which led to Ahmed's Musa, one of his neighbors said, "Ahmed is a nice guy. He always has a friendly smile. I do not know anything about his private life."

The other man who settled on the road beside Ahmad's apartment mentioned, "You never hear noise coming from the house. I had no idea the police had been called there." A Nigerian who knows the winger added, "Everyone knows Musa is a jolly good fellow. He does not drink or smoke. He does not party and has never been in trouble with the police all his life. He could not harm a fly."

-Ahmed is a popular character in Russia, and they love him so much that it earned him a nickname, "Myca." The name is the Russian way of pronouncing his real name, Musa. 

-Ahmed Musa is an athlete whose role in commissioning a 500 Million Naira sports facility in Kano on 15 January 2017 proved how much has is interested in sports. His goal was to prepare the standards state of training for the sports lovers and help them follow their favorite fields.

Through an interview with Kwese ESPN, Musa said, "People like football in Kano, and they pay money to train in different places. So, I thought that it would be good to have a standard place where all these people could have a good place to train, play football, and relax."

-Following the unveiling of Ahmed Musa's sports center, the northern youths and association of the Northern Nigerian students gave him the title of "Jagaban Matasan Arewa." In English, it means a champion of Women in Northern Nigeria. 

-Ahmed Musa has participated in other charities in addition to promoting sports. Distributing money was one of the cases he did and helped the community in the spirit of Ramadan while he was playing as a forward for Leicester.

Additionally, secure freedom for 40 remanded children at the Taurey, Goron Dutse Prison Yard, and Kurmawa Prison in Kano state has been one of the most adorable help he has done. 

-Ahmed Musa started his senior career with GBS Football Academy in 2008. However, without appearing in any competitions and scoring any goals, he joined JUTH the same year on loan. The following season, Musa moved to

and played in 25 matches and netted 18 times.

Before joining CSKA Moscow in 2012, Musa played for

on loan. From 2016 to 2018, he spent two seasons with Leicester City, and through appearing in 21 games, he scored two goals.

Afterward, Musa moved to Al Nassr and played in 50 matches. As his career statistics show, Musa has joined

for the 2021-22 season and has scored one goal until now. Ahmed Musa has also had successful appearances at the international level with the Nigeria national team. After 11 years of playing for his national team, he has participated in 100 competitions and scored 15 goals. 

Almost reading the story behind each successful person has been an interesting topic to follow. In today's article, we tried to mention the most significant 

facts about Ahmed Musa

 and cover the most attractive info related to his personal and professional life. However, if you have any points regarding the text, share them with us via the comment section. 

Related Article:

Follow 

 for the