The decision of Victor Osimhen to snub the Super Eagles friendly game against Portugal due to injury isn’t true according to sources close to the player, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
Osimhen scored and played the entire duration of Napoli’s 3-2 win over Udinese and was expected in the camp of the Super yesterday when they officially started training for the game on Thursday.
Yesterday morning, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) explained that he has been replaced by Cremonense forward Cyriel Dessers due to an injury be picked up, which will likely be aggravated if he goes ahead to play in the friendly game.
That claim has been said to be false by a source who is close to the Napoli forward. He explained that Osimhen’s withdrawal from the game is due to Napoli’s refusal to hand him an extended break if he plays in the game.
” Injured? I don’t think so because he was on for the entire duration of the game over the weekend. What I know for sure is that he has this running battle with Napoli over handing him a week extra as he will be involved with the Nigerian team during the first week of the break”, he told OwnGoalNigeria.com.
” That request wasn’t granted the last time I checked and he has to travel to Nigeria, spend time with his girlfriend who just gave birth and also head out on a small holiday before the league resumes. So skipping the game is the natural thing to do”, be rounded up saying.