Victor Osimhen Biography, Net Worth, Age, State, Tribe, Family, Parents, Education

The Golden Boot award winner at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, Victor Osimhen was born in the year 1998 in Lagos State, Nigeria. He is currently at the age of twenty-five years old this year, 2023.

Wikipedia Profile and Biodata

Real Name:	Victor James Osimhen
Date of Birth:	29 December 1998
Age:	25 years old @ 2023
State of Origin:	Lagos State, Nigeria
Place of Birth:	Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
Nationality:	Nigerian
Marital Status:	Not Married
Ex-girlfriend:	Stefanie Ladewi
Daughter:	Hailey True (B. February 2022)
Occupation:	Footballer
Net Worth:	$500k
Position:	Striker
Current team:	Napoli
Height:	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

Victor Osimhen Biography

The Nigerian football player, Victor was born in the city of Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria. He was born in the nineties, and he will be at the age of 25 years old this, 29 December 2023. Victor Osimhen is 6 ft and 1 in tall, he is the current striker of Napoli football club.

Age and Date of Birth

Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Napoli, Victor James Osimhen was born on 29 December 1998; he will be 25 years old this year 2023.

State of Origin and Place of Birth

He was born in the city of Lagos (he grew up in Olusosun, Edo State). Didier Drogba, who is also a football player, was his hero when he was young. In the 2021–22 season, Victor Osimhen won the Serie A Best Young Player award.

Career

In 2017, Osimhen started his professional career at VfL Wolfsburg in Germany. After a year and a half at the club, he went on loan to Charleroi in Belgium for the 2018–19 season before moving to Lille in France.

In 2020, Victor Osimhen moved to Serie A club Napoli for a club-record fee of €70 million. In the 2021–22 season, he won the Serie A Best Young Player award.

At the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, which Nigeria won, Osimhen won the Golden Boot award. He played at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. His first international game was in June 2017.

Professional Career

Victor Osimhen started his career at the Lagos, Nigeria-based Ultimate Strikers Academy. After getting noticed at the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Victor signed a pre-contract with VfL Wolfsburg in January 2016. The contract said that he would join the club for real in January 2017.

Victor Osimhen is a Nigerian professional football player who currently plays as a striker for S.S.C. Napoli in Serie A.

He has previously played for VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga, Charleroi in the Belgian First Division A, and Lille in Ligue 1.

Victor signed with Wolfsburg in January 2017, but struggled to make an impact, making just 12 appearances in the Bundesliga and failed to score.

He was then loaned out to Charleroi, where he had a successful season, scoring 20 goals in 36 appearances.

This led to a permanent move to Lille in July 2019, where he had an impressive season, scoring 13 goals in 25 Ligue 1 matches and being named the club’s Player of the Season.

In July 2020, Victor Osimhen signed with Napoli for a club-record fee and has since been a regular scorer for the club.

International Career

Victor was on the Nigeria under-17 team that won the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile. He won the Golden Boot and Silver Ball awards at the tournament because he scored 10 goals in seven games.

In 2015, he also won the CAF Youth Player of the Year award for his play. On June 10, 2017, Osimhen played in his first game for Nigeria, which lost 2-0 to South Africa.

After a bad season at Wolfsburg, he wasn’t picked to play for Nigeria at the 2018 FIFA World Cup. After a good start to his loan at Charleroi, Gernot Rohr called him back for the international break in November 2018. He started their friendly win over Uganda.

AFCON 2024

Victor Osimhen, a Nigerian striker, is currently playing in the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). He has been deemed fit and is ready for selection in the upcoming semi-final against South Africa.

Throughout AFCON, Osimhen has been a consistent starter, participating in all five of Nigeria’s matches. He scored once in the group stage opener against Equatorial Guinea, leveling the scores.

Despite his single goal, Osimhen has been performing at a high level, directly or indirectly contributing to five of Nigeria’s six goals in the tournament.

He has been leading Nigeria’s attack, supported by Moses Simon, Ademola Lookman, or Samuel Chukwueze on the flanks.

Net Worth

He is expected to be worth more or less than, $500k. Thank you for reading the full biography and net worth of Victor Osimhen, you can check out our recent post on the full biography and net worth of Alan Tudge.

Awards and Recognition

Awards	Years
FIFA U-17 World Cup	2015
Africa Cup of Nations third place	2019
African U-17 Championship Golden Boot	2015
FIFA U-17 World Cup Golden Boot	2015
FIFA U-17 World Cup Silver Ball	2015
CAF Youth Player of the Year	2015
UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Month	September 2019
Prix Marc-Vivien Foé	2020
Lille Player of the Season	2019–20
Serie A Best Young Player	2021–22
Serie A Player of the Month	March 2022
Serie A Goal of the Month	January 2023
Globe Soccer Awards Emerging Player of the Year	2022

In Conclusion

In March 2019, Osimhen was taken out of the Super Eagles team so he could play for the Nigerian U23 team against Libya. The Super Eagles were behind by two goals at the time. In the return game against Libya in Asaba, he scored three goals.

Victor Osimhen was on coach Gernot Rohr’s provisional list of 25 players for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt. He was also on the final list of players for the tournament.

He replaced an injured Odion Ighalo at halftime of the team’s 1–0 win over Tunisia in the match for third place. At the tournament, he played for a total of 45 minutes.

The Super Eagles beat Lesotho 3–0 to end the qualifiers for the 2021 AFCON on a high note. But Victor didn’t go to the African Cup of Nations. His club said it was because he was sick with COVID-19.

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