VICTOR OSIMHEN
Super Eagles marksman, Victor Osimhen, has won the Italy Footballer of the Year prize for 2023 at the AIC Oscar del Calcio Awards.
Osimhen helped Napoli to win their first Serie A title in 33 years earlier this year after Diego Maradona achieved same feat with the club.
He scored 26 league goals to land the gong at the Italian Footballers’ Association Footballer of the Year award ceremony held on Monday night.
“Victor Osimhen is the 2022/23 Footballer of the Year,” the awardees tweeted while announcing the 24-year-old as the winner.
Osimhen also made the Serie A Team of the Year alongside teammates Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Kim Min-jae.
Monday’s event is coming one week before the CAF awards where the striker is in pole position to become the first Nigerian to win Africa’s top player prize since Kanu Nwankwo won it in 1999. The event is billed for the Moroccan city of Marrakesh.
Recall that Osimhen was ranked 8th in the 2023 Ballon d’Or in October this year, becoming the highest-rated Nigerian since the inception of the award.
