Lille Metropole of France striker, Victor Osimhen has come out with a down-to-earth confession that he wants to win this year’s African Best Young Player award, for which he has been short-listed alongside fellow-Nigerian, Samuel Chukwueze, who plays for Villarreal of Spain, megasportsarena.com reports.
Although the 20-year-old former VfL Wolfsburg of Germany and Sporting Charleroi of Belgium star previously took the gong home in 2015, after his top scoring feat at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile, Osimhen says he wants to get a second feel of the plaque, ahead of Chukwueze and the current holder, Achraf Hakimi of Morocco.
He come into contention for the prize after netting 31 goals in all competitions for club and country, with nine assists to boot, and has already promised that there a lot more to come from off his boots and head him in the coming year.
While savouring his successful run of 2019, during which he transformed from a lad left to wallow at Wolfsburg into a resounding success at Charleroi and, subsequently, one of Africa’s current top scoring youngsters in all of Europe’s top five leagues.
He is now looking to add the CAF Best Youth Player award to his closet come January 7 in Egypt, ahead of which the product of Ultimate Strikers Football Academy of Ojota, Lagos also assured his fans that he will continue working hard to keep doing well for both club and country.
However, while admitting he would love tom win the upcoming award, Osimhen acknowledged that Chukwueze and Hakimi have also done well this year, hence his verdict that it will not be a stroll for him to the gong on January 7.
Osimhen said: “Any of us can win the award. I think we deserved it we had a very fantastic year but I am also looking forward to winning it. The year was a very high one for me but I want to keep doing well for both club and country. Although there will be hard times sometimes and criticisms, I’m really looking forward to doing well in (2020) and surpass what I did this year.”
