Victor Osimhen is the current African footballer of the year and is critical to Nigeria’s quest for a fourth Africa Cup of Nations title in Ivory Coast but his career in football could have turned out very differently, and very badly.
The striker has won a Serie A title with Napoli, and became the first African to be the league’s capocannoniere (top scorer), but Osimhen’s career in Europe, in its early stages, came close to ending before it had barely began.
