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Watford striker Odion Ighalo praises God for dream season

by Aaron James

Odion Ighalo has 14 goals already for the club, ranking him fourth on the list of top scorers this season.

His goals are a pivotal reason newly-promoted Watford FC are currently a respectable 9th place in the Barclay's Premier League.

Mr Ighalo has turned down an offer of at least £80m from the Chinese club Hebei China Fortune out of loyalty to the club - the first English one to sign him - and because he felt God told him not to take it.

He told the Daily Mail: "I prayed about it, and God said it was not for me, no matter how much money it was.

"I knew God would direct me. When I said I don't want to go, they offered me more money, almost £300,000 a week.

"I told them it's not about the money."

Odion Ighalo is from Ajegunle, a slum area of the Nigerian city Lagos.

He is hoping to open an orphanage there by the end of the year.

Mr Ighalo told the paper: "I'm happy to be one of them. I'm proud to be Nigerian and to have come from a ghetto like that.

"Hard work and the grace of God have paid off in my life.

"I am a Christian and I believe so much in God. I'm not perfect. I have my flaws. I am human. Only God is perfect. I try to acknowledge him in my life.

"Whatever I am now and what I am going to be is through God."

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