Osimhen Vows to beat Brazil ‘at their backyard’

Victor Osimhen has arrived Nigeria’s U-23 camp and says he wants to beat Brazil’s Olympic team, when both sides play a friendly later this month.

The striker who recently signed for Bundesliga team Wolfsburg, was part of the U-17 team that beat their Brazilian counterparts, at an invitational tournament in South Korea and also at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile last year.

Osimhen says he would love to taste victory against the hosts of this year’s Olympic Games again.

He said: “It’s always fun for me to come to camp and play for my fatherland. I see it as a privilege and will always honour such invitations any time I am called upon.

“I have come to fight for a jersey in this friendly match that is part of preparations for the Rio Olympics and I am happy to be among the invited players.

“You know I was part of the Golden Eaglets team that defeated the Brazilians at the last U-17 World Cup in Chile and so it will be a pleasure for me to play them at their backyard and hopefully find the back of the net, as I did against them in Chile.”