Victor Osimhen, Napoli’s talented striker, won the 2023. African Player of the Year award after his outstanding performance in leading his team to the Serie A title last season.
Osimhen beat out fierce rivals Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, Paris Saint-Germain’s Achraf Hakimi and Al-Nasser’s Sadio Mane. The award was announced on Monday night. The
24-year-old striker becomes the first Nigerian player to win the award. Since Arsenal’s Nwankwo Kanu in 1999 and is also a Serie A player. The first player to be named African Player of the Year since Samuel Eto’o at Inter Milan in 2010, ยูฟ่าเบท
This momentous victory marks the end of a 23-year drought for Nigeria, the last African nation to claim the continent’s highest individual footballing honour.
Napoli hot-shot won the coveted prize after firing his club to a first Serie A title in over three decades. The honour capped a remarkable year for the powerful front man who also fired Nigeria to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations with 10 goals to finish as the top scorer of the qualifiers.
Osimhen has scored 26 goals in 32 Serie A appearances. Won the top scorer award. which was the first African player to do so.
In addition to this, he also scored another 5 goals in 6 matches in the UEFA Champions League, with Napoli landing in the quarter-finals.