The most talked about striker in the senior national team of Nigeria the past two years has been Victor Osimhen owing to his exploits for club and country.
This season, the 23 year old has been unstoppable since making his return from Injury with six goals in all competitions from as many games. In the Serie A he has scored seven goals in 8 games, half the amount of goals he scored last season from 27 games.
As expected it has led to talks about his legendary status in the senior national team of Nigeria, where he has 15 goals in 23 games, 22 goals behind all time top scorer of the Nigerian team Rashidi Yekini.
Yekini scored 37 goals in 58 games, a record which no one has broken since he left the international scene in 1999. However many are tipping Osimhen to smash the record if he maintains his current streak. That appears not to have gone down well with former Nigeria U17 coach Manu Garba.
“Presently, they are incomparable and each of them is in a class of his own. Osimhen was the FIFA U17 World cup highest goal scorer and has age on his side and if he remains disciplined, resilient, focused and injury free he will be one of the great strikers”, he told Bunmiblair.com.
“For Late Rashidi Yekini, he won the Africa footballer of the year award(1993), Nigeria’s all-time leading goal scorer and has scored lots of goals(520) in his professional career.”
“What I can see is Osimhen is the best in the present generation of strikers and have the potential to break Yekini’s record but they are incomparable for now,” Manu concluded.