Osimhen Reveals African's Great As His Role Model

Osimhen Reveals African's Great As His Role Model By Our Reporter Nigeria international, Victor Osimhen in his recent interview with the BBC, revealed the man who inspires him his goal scoring form While the former Wolfsburg and Charleroi striker has the utmost respect for Ighalo, he admits he draws his inspiration from Ivory Coast and Chelsea great Didier Drogba. "My big brother and senior man Ighalo did well for Nigeria and even finished as top scorer at the last Nations Cup in Egypt," said Osimhen. "But I took Drogba as my role model while I was growing up and that has been the guiding light. I think watching him a lot and the kind of mentality he has in terms of football has really helped me a lot to get to where I am today." Osimhen burst into the spotlight at the 2015 Under-17 World Cup in Chile, as he clinched the Golden Boot and Silver Ball awards while steering the Golden Eaglets to the title. The then-16-year-old scored a tournament-record 10 goals, netting in every one of Nigeria's games, in a performance that helped earn him Africa's Youth Player of the Year award for 2015. Now two-time league champions Napoli are hoping his goalscoring exploits can help them build on their Coppa Italia triumph of last year.