And A Nigerian Becomes World Strongest footballer

And he is really big!!
Am glad that Nigerians everywhere in the world are no longer recognized for one negative thing or the other but good and are making their beloved country proud.
Keep it up guys we proud of you and  Nigeria will  Someday be better than what it is.


He weighs 16 stone
Akinfenwa is 5ft 11in but he weighs in at a
mighty 16 stone, or 102kg.
That’s a BMI of 31.3 or around the same body
weight as England rugby hooker Tom Youngs.
He says he has always been a “naturally big guy”,
and has even struggled to get football teams to
take him seriously.
“People said I’m too big to play football,” he said.
“One hundred goals later, I’m not. There are no
limitations to what you want to do.”
He can bench-press 180kg Or 396 pounds, if you
prefer.
That’s three times the body-weight of his team-
mate, midfielder Sammy Moore.
Such is his passion for lifting heavy weights, he
admits that previous managers have had to “rein
him in” to stop him spending too long in the
gym.
Akinfenwa’s strength has been recognized by the
Fifa series of video games, which have deemed
him the strongest footballer in the world, with a
strength rating of 97 out of 100.
He created ‘Beast Mode’
Akinfenwa’s brawny physique has earned him
the nickname ‘The Beast’, but to the hulking
frontman, it’s more than just an epithet.
“Beast Mode On is a state of mind,” he explained.
“Beast Mode is about applying yourself and
defying the limitations people put on you.”
When he’s not terrorising League Two centre-
backs, Akinfenwa also finds time to run a
clothing line bearing the ‘Beast Mode’ name.
He gets mistaken for NFL players
Akinfenwa is often recognised as a footballer. Just
not always as the right sort of footballer.
The striker admits he was once pulled over by a
policeman who mistook him for a player in
America’s NFL.
Akinfenwa was happy to set the errant copper
straight, telling him: “I play proper football.”
He’s been likened to a fat Eddie Murphy Rival
fans, perhaps emboldened by the presence of
security personnel between the crowd and the
pitch, are fond of jocularly abusing Akinfenwa
from the terraces.
The big man just laughs it off, though.
“My favourite chant is ‘you’re just a fat Eddie
Murphy’. When I heard that I could not stop
laughing. I would prefer a ‘muscular Eddie
Murphy’.” Sorry Adebayo, I don’t think it’s going
to catch on.
He inspired 39,000 tweets
During Monday night’s FA Cup match, there were
a whopping 39,000 tweets related to Akinfenwa.
#BeastMode was the third-most popular hashtag
as Twitter went mad for Wimbledon’s cult hero.
He’s a committed Christian
Akinfenwa was born to a Muslim father and a
Christian mother.
“When Ramadan was on dad made us fast and
then I had to read the Bible every day and go to
church,” he said.
It was his mother’s faith that he was drawn to
and he now reads the Bible daily and attends church every Sunday.





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