The world football governing body, FIFA , celebrated with rave of the moment and Super Eagles forward, Victor Osimhen in Napoli’s last league game of the season at home against Sampdoria at the weekend.
In Napoli’s last match graced by the Nigeria Football
Federation(NFF) president, Ibrahim Gusau, Osimhen received a personalised shirt
and ball from a representative of FIFA.
Gelson Fernandes who is FIFA’s director member associations
for Africa presented the awards to Osimhen in the presence of the visibly happy
Gusau.
The Nigerian delighted his guests with a goal, his 26th
Serie A goal of the season in their 2-0 home win over Sampdoria. Besides
winning the league title for the first time since 1989-90 season, he also beat
other strikers to the highest scorer’s award to become the first African to do
so.
Osimhen has been an example for many young footballers since
his emergence onto the international scene in 2015 when his record 10 goals
fired the Golden Eaglets to a fifth U-17 World Cup title in Chile.
The 24-year-old finished as the tournament’s top scorer,
winning the Golden Boot award along with the Silver Ball for his impressive
performances.
His 10 goals in seven matches broke the long-standing record
of nine goals in a single tournament previously jointly held by Frenchman
Florent Sinama Pongolle and Ivorian Souleymane Coulibaly.
That feat also earned him the 2015 CAF Youth Player of The
Year prize.
Osimhen recently helped Napoli win the Serie A title for the
first time in 33 years and also became the first African to win the
Capocannoniere (Serie A Top Scorer Award).
The striker also broke a 14-year jinx of being the first
player since Zlatan Ibrahimovic to win the Scudetto and the Capocannoniere same
season.