He's the football mad teenager who has overcome Leukaemia - to return to the pitch.
Keanu Black, from Rownhams, was a 12-year-old living out his dream of becoming a professional footballer, playing with the Southampton Football Club Academy, until disaster struck.
Just days after signing a new two-year contract in early 2020, goalkeeper Keanu was diagnosed with the blood cancer, devastating news which threatened not only his football career but his life.
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Training was put on hold as Keanu embarked on a gruelling year of treatment, spending the next seven months in hospital, undergoing four rounds of chemotherapy and enduring more than 60 blood and platelet transfusions.
Four years on, the 16-year-old plays for Aldershot's under 18s team and has recently completed his studies at The Mountbatten School in Romsey.
Now Keanu's parents, Hannah and James, have pledged to give back to the medics who treated their son.
They're joining Cure Leukaemia chief executive James McLaughlin, himself a former Saints employee, on the Southampton leg of his Run The Nations challenge on Wednesday (September 11), setting off from University Hospital Southampton, the site of one of the charity's network of Trials Acceleration Programme centres.
CSW Cladding director James Black is the headline sponsor of the event, which will see James McLaughlin spread the word as he runs 220 miles over 14 days, and Keanu's parents have also pledged to donate £10,000 for each of the next five years.
"We will be forever grateful to the incredible staff at the Southampton Children’s Hospital that treated Keanu," James said.
"My wife Hannah and I feel that it is the right thing to give back and get involved with fundraising."
Keanu made a miraculous recovery, returning to football training in 2021 after receiving messages of support and signed gifts from some of the biggest names in world football, including England star Raheem Sterling, Jordan Pickford and Mason Mount, and even Dutch footballing legend Marco Van Basten.
He also had a get well message beamed onto the big screens at St Mary's and received a visit from Saints favourites James Ward-Prowse and Danny Ings.
On Keanu returning to the football field, James said: "It's fantastic, it's something I wasn't sure was going to happen so to see him kick a ball in training and in matches.
"It just opens your eyes up to how lucky you are."
Find out more and donate at cureleukaemia.co.uk/events/run-the-nations/
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