Andre Onana's true colours highlighted as Manchester United star honoured with award

Manchester United prima Andre Onana has been commended by FIFPRO for his foundation work, having been 1 of the Red Devils' fewer awesome performers truthful acold this season

Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana has won the FIFPRO Player Impact Award for his off-field foundation work.

The 28-year-old’s charity, the Andre Onana Foundation, provides escaped aesculapian attraction and high-quality surgeries to underprivileged communities successful Cameroon, arsenic good arsenic different countries successful Sub-Saharan Africa. The instauration collaborates with surgeons and aesculapian professionals, who each twelvemonth supply life-changing country and attraction to hundreds of people, peculiarly children.

Doctors moving with Onana’s instauration person performed implicit 1,200 surgical operations implicit the past 3 years. Onana said: “When I passed done Barcelona, Amsterdam and Milan connected my mode to Manchester United, I had radical who helped maine connected that journey.

“When I was down, they gave maine a manus truthful that I could basal up. I’ve ne'er forgotten the assistance I received. Because of the radical successful the past who supported me, I consciousness I person a work to springiness backmost and assistance others.

“When I started the Andre Onana Foundation, the thought was to assistance unsighted children successful Cameroon. We received a batch of enactment and it’s since grown to go an NGO that provides escaped aesculapian attraction and surgeries to children and adults from underprivileged communities.

“We bring doctors and surgeons, mostly from Spain, to execute the procedures successful Africa. In July this year, we had our 4th surgical run wherever a delegation of Spanish wellness professionals – from nurses to paediatric surgeons – helped implicit 350 radical successful Yaounde, Cameroon’s capital.”

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Onana’s Manchester United team-mate, Marcus Rashford, is simply a erstwhile victor of the FIFPRO Impact Award. Rashford was recognised with the 2020 grant erstwhile helium led a palmy run to guarantee disadvantaged children successful the United Kingdom would proceed to person escaped schoolhouse meals erstwhile schools were closed during the covid pandemic.

Onana said: “I privation to convey FIFPRO and the Cameroonian subordinate national Synafoc; this large donation is precise welcome, and our squad already person plans successful spot to bash immoderate bully things for the kids, hopefully successful practice with UNICEF.

“As for the aboriginal of the Andre Onana Foundation, we person a batch of things ahead. We’re successful speech with the United Nations to bash a collaboration and our main precedence going guardant is to interaction arsenic galore radical arsenic we tin successful the world.”

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