Togo striker Denkey to donate 150 bicycles to school children after winning MLS Goal of the Week

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FC Cincinnati striker Kévin Denkey has chosen a cheeky and charitable way to celebrate winning Goal of the Week in Major League Soccer. The Togolese goal machine, who has eight goals in fourteen matches since joining Cincinnati for a club-record transfer fee from Belgian football, won the award for his Matchday 10 performance where he scored a brace including a bicycle kick in a 2-1 victory over Sporting Kansas City on April 26.

"There's not many words to describe what he (Denkey) did," FC Cincinnati head coach Pat Noonan said in comments recorded by the Cincinnati Inquirer. "It was one of the best goals I've seen in person. It's gonna be tough to top that."

In homage to his bicycle kick, Denkey decided to reward local Cincinnati school students with the donation of 150 bicycles. In co-operation with his club's FC Cincinnati Foundation, Denkey will award the bicycles along with helmets to students at the Hays-Porter School who have perfect or nearly perfect attendance or are honor roll students.

Cincinnati lost their most recent match in league play, a 0-1 defeat at New York City FC, but the club are in good form after an indifferent start with new big money signings Denkey and Brazilian attacking midfielder Evander. "FC Cincy" are third place in MLS' Eastern Conference table, two points off the pace set by leaders Columbus Crew.