Victor osimhen

The Nigerian's strike against Fiorentina on 7 May was his 47th in the Italian top flight , taking the Napoli striker past Liberia's George Weah and making him the top African scorer in the league's history - a notable achievement given that former AC Milan star Weah is the only African ever to win the Ballon d'Or prize given to the world's best footballer. But the two goal-hungry forwards are far from the only Africans to make a mark in Italy. BBC Sport Africa takes a look at some of the facts and figures for players who scored success after crossing the Mediterranean. The trailblazer and the record breaker By and large, African players arriving in Italy can be divided into two categories: young prospects and established stars. Osimhen and Weah fall squarely into the second category, as do Ghanaian idol Abedi Pele, who won a Champions League title at Marseille before joining Torino in 1994, Samuel Eto'o, one of the main protagonists of Inter Milan's treble in 2010, and Mohamed Salah, who was loaned to Fiorentina by Chelsea in January 2015 and then sold to Roma six months later. African duo Sulley Muntari (left) and Samuel Eto'o (right) enjoyed Inter Milan's greatest season (2009-10) winning Serie A, Coppa Italia and Champions League titles before also claiming the Fifa Club World Cup Then there are the likes of Ghana's Sulley Muntari, scouted by Udinese at 16 years of age and successful at both Inter and AC Milan, and Senegal's Khouma Babacar, who also arrived at Fiorentin...

Victor Osimhen of SSC Napoli celebrates the victory at the end of the Serie A match between SSC ... [+] Napoli and FC Torino at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, Napoli, Italy on 17 October 2021. (Photo by Giuseppe Maffia/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images The clock was ticking, and the 30,000 Neapolitans inside the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona were becoming increasingly restless. It was the 79 th minute of a fairly mundane game when substitute Dries Mertens picked up the ball outside the Torino box. Mertens shifted his feet, played a one-two with Victor Osimhen on the periphery of the area, played another give-and-go with Kalidou Koulibaly and pushed the ball past a bewitched Torino back line. The goal was very similar to the one scored away to Leicester recently in the Europa League, when he showed Cristiano Ronaldo-esque hang time to meet Matteo Politano’s floated cross to score his second of the game in the 2-2 draw. It felt like one of those games were Napoli would drop points. We’ve seen it so many times down the years. They didn’t play well, Lorenzo Insigne missed a second consecutive penalty (having missed one against Fiorentina before the international break) with his tame effort easily saved by Milinkovic-Savic; they had a goal disallowed through VAR; Hirving Lozano hit the base of the post with an angled strike. Reddit CEO Pushes Back Against Blackout—Will Consider Letting Users Vote Out Moderators But yet they remained calm. Luciano Spalletti ti...

ANALYSIS Osimhen scored in Sunday's season finale, a penalty in the 64th minute to give his side the 1-0 lead. It marks his 26th goal of the season, giving him the Serie A Golden Boot. The 2022-2023 season was by far his best season of his career, as he set career highs in assists, shots, shots on target and chances created. With the rise in sports betting in the US, there are a wealth of One of the best parts about legal sports betting is the fact that they accept deposits in many ways, including Sports bettors in Massachusetts can claim Massachusetts sportsbook promo codes as of March 2023. Bettors are able to get these generous welcome promotions from various sportsbooks in many forms. The most common are bonus bets, but other bonus types are available as well. New players can claim thousands worth of bonuses, starting with BetMGM Massachusetts . Also, bettors in Massachusetts can claim a bonus at Caesars Sportsbook Massachusetts . This promotion nets the most generous welcome offer available in Massachusetts. These two offers combined can net new bettors with a large amount of bonus funds in the Codfish State. Add in the easy-to-use WynnBET Massachusetts app and you can add even more bonus funds to your collective bankroll. Start by claiming the WynnBET promo code and redeeming your bonus offer in Massachusetts. Another popular option in Massachusetts is Barstool Sportsbook, which offers another promotion via the Barstool Sportsbook Massachusetts promo code . Users can...

Napoli just needed one point against Udinese to secure their first Serie A title in 33 years and they did it. The team coached by Luciano Spalletti drew 1-1 at the Dacia Arena in Udine and clinched the title, having a 16-point advantage over Lazio with five games left before the end of the season. After drawing last Sunday at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona in Naples against Salernitana and missing their first chance to win the title, Napoli had to suffer a few more days until Thursday. The match against Udinese didn't start well for the Azzurri, as Udinese found the opener with Lovric, but it was Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen who scored the equalizer. VICTOR OSIMHEN'S 22ND SERIE A GOAL OF THE SEASON IS A HUGE ONE! 🇳🇬 🦅 Napoli are less than 40 minutes away from their first Scudetto in 33 years. 👀 Osimhen scored 22 goals in 27 Serie A games until now and with this one against Udinese, he became the top African Serie A goal scorer alongside George Weah (46 goals). This is how the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona reacted at the goal scored by Osimhen, with the home fans that gathered at the stadium in Naples to watch the game:

According to French sports newspaper L'Equipe, the deal is worth more than $96m (81.3m euros) making him the most expensive African player of all time. Napoli have now paid more than English side Arsenal paid Lille for Ivory Coast's Nicolas Pepe a year ago. Osimhen had joined Lille from Belgium's Charleroi as a replacement for Pepe. After scoring 18 goals in all competitions for Lille last season, the 21-year-old hade been linked for several weeks with Napoli. In June he was named as Lille's player of the season in what was his first campaign in France, and the Nigerian was also named in Ligue 1's team of the season. Osimhen burst into the spotlight at the 2015 Under-17 World Cup in Chile, as he clinched the Golden Boot and Silver Ball awards while steering the Golden Eaglets to the title. The then-16-year-old scored a tournament record 10 goals, netting in every one of Nigeria's games, in a performance that helped earn him Africa's Youth Player of the Year award for 2015. His displays at that World Cup also earned him a move to Wolfsburg but Osimhen, who turned down Arsenal to play in Germany's Bundesliga, admitted to struggling as he slowly adapted to both the league and European football. After a barren season in which the striker, affected by injury, did not score in 16 games, he moved to Belgium where the goals soon flowed - 19 in his first campaign at Charleroi, where he was originally on loan before making the move permanent. Find all the latest football transfers o...

Napoli just needed one point against Udinese to secure their first Serie A title in 33 years and they did it. The team coached by Luciano Spalletti drew 1-1 at the Dacia Arena in Udine and clinched the title, having a 16-point advantage over Lazio with five games left before the end of the season. After drawing last Sunday at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona in Naples against Salernitana and missing their first chance to win the title, Napoli had to suffer a few more days until Thursday. The match against Udinese didn't start well for the Azzurri, as Udinese found the opener with Lovric, but it was Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen who scored the equalizer. VICTOR OSIMHEN'S 22ND SERIE A GOAL OF THE SEASON IS A HUGE ONE! 🇳🇬 🦅 Napoli are less than 40 minutes away from their first Scudetto in 33 years. 👀 Osimhen scored 22 goals in 27 Serie A games until now and with this one against Udinese, he became the top African Serie A goal scorer alongside George Weah (46 goals). This is how the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona reacted at the goal scored by Osimhen, with the home fans that gathered at the stadium in Naples to watch the game:

According to French sports newspaper L'Equipe, the deal is worth more than $96m (81.3m euros) making him the most expensive African player of all time. Napoli have now paid more than English side Arsenal paid Lille for Ivory Coast's Nicolas Pepe a year ago. Osimhen had joined Lille from Belgium's Charleroi as a replacement for Pepe. After scoring 18 goals in all competitions for Lille last season, the 21-year-old hade been linked for several weeks with Napoli. In June he was named as Lille's player of the season in what was his first campaign in France, and the Nigerian was also named in Ligue 1's team of the season. Osimhen burst into the spotlight at the 2015 Under-17 World Cup in Chile, as he clinched the Golden Boot and Silver Ball awards while steering the Golden Eaglets to the title. The then-16-year-old scored a tournament record 10 goals, netting in every one of Nigeria's games, in a performance that helped earn him Africa's Youth Player of the Year award for 2015. His displays at that World Cup also earned him a move to Wolfsburg but Osimhen, who turned down Arsenal to play in Germany's Bundesliga, admitted to struggling as he slowly adapted to both the league and European football. After a barren season in which the striker, affected by injury, did not score in 16 games, he moved to Belgium where the goals soon flowed - 19 in his first campaign at Charleroi, where he was originally on loan before making the move permanent. Find all the latest football transfers o...

ANALYSIS Osimhen scored in Sunday's season finale, a penalty in the 64th minute to give his side the 1-0 lead. It marks his 26th goal of the season, giving him the Serie A Golden Boot. The 2022-2023 season was by far his best season of his career, as he set career highs in assists, shots, shots on target and chances created. With the rise in sports betting in the US, there are a wealth of One of the best parts about legal sports betting is the fact that they accept deposits in many ways, including Sports bettors in Massachusetts can claim Massachusetts sportsbook promo codes as of March 2023. Bettors are able to get these generous welcome promotions from various sportsbooks in many forms. The most common are bonus bets, but other bonus types are available as well. New players can claim thousands worth of bonuses, starting with BetMGM Massachusetts . Also, bettors in Massachusetts can claim a bonus at Caesars Sportsbook Massachusetts . This promotion nets the most generous welcome offer available in Massachusetts. These two offers combined can net new bettors with a large amount of bonus funds in the Codfish State. Add in the easy-to-use WynnBET Massachusetts app and you can add even more bonus funds to your collective bankroll. Start by claiming the WynnBET promo code and redeeming your bonus offer in Massachusetts. Another popular option in Massachusetts is Barstool Sportsbook, which offers another promotion via the Barstool Sportsbook Massachusetts promo code . Users can...

Victor Osimhen of SSC Napoli celebrates the victory at the end of the Serie A match between SSC ... [+] Napoli and FC Torino at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, Napoli, Italy on 17 October 2021. (Photo by Giuseppe Maffia/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images The clock was ticking, and the 30,000 Neapolitans inside the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona were becoming increasingly restless. It was the 79 th minute of a fairly mundane game when substitute Dries Mertens picked up the ball outside the Torino box. Mertens shifted his feet, played a one-two with Victor Osimhen on the periphery of the area, played another give-and-go with Kalidou Koulibaly and pushed the ball past a bewitched Torino back line. The goal was very similar to the one scored away to Leicester recently in the Europa League, when he showed Cristiano Ronaldo-esque hang time to meet Matteo Politano’s floated cross to score his second of the game in the 2-2 draw. It felt like one of those games were Napoli would drop points. We’ve seen it so many times down the years. They didn’t play well, Lorenzo Insigne missed a second consecutive penalty (having missed one against Fiorentina before the international break) with his tame effort easily saved by Milinkovic-Savic; they had a goal disallowed through VAR; Hirving Lozano hit the base of the post with an angled strike. 2023 Layoff Tracker Oracle Reportedly Cuts Hundreds Of Jobs But yet they remained calm. Luciano Spalletti tinkered with his system in th...

The Nigerian's strike against Fiorentina on 7 May was his 47th in the Italian top flight , taking the Napoli striker past Liberia's George Weah and making him the top African scorer in the league's history - a notable achievement given that former AC Milan star Weah is the only African ever to win the Ballon d'Or prize given to the world's best footballer. But the two goal-hungry forwards are far from the only Africans to make a mark in Italy. BBC Sport Africa takes a look at some of the facts and figures for players who scored success after crossing the Mediterranean. The trailblazer and the record breaker By and large, African players arriving in Italy can be divided into two categories: young prospects and established stars. Osimhen and Weah fall squarely into the second category, as do Ghanaian idol Abedi Pele, who won a Champions League title at Marseille before joining Torino in 1994, Samuel Eto'o, one of the main protagonists of Inter Milan's treble in 2010, and Mohamed Salah, who was loaned to Fiorentina by Chelsea in January 2015 and then sold to Roma six months later. African duo Sulley Muntari (left) and Samuel Eto'o (right) enjoyed Inter Milan's greatest season (2009-10) winning Serie A, Coppa Italia and Champions League titles before also claiming the Fifa Club World Cup Then there are the likes of Ghana's Sulley Muntari, scouted by Udinese at 16 years of age and successful at both Inter and AC Milan, and Senegal's Khouma Babacar, who also arrived at Fiorentin...