Osimhen’s Brace Reignites Napoli’s Serie A Title Hopes, Explains Photography ‘Job’

Nigeria international Victor Osimhen added spice to his two goals celebration against Verona in Italian Serie A on Sunday evening which enhanced their title chances as he picked the camera and captured the away fans in a moment of ecstasy.

Osimhen scored on the 14th and 71st minutes of the game after Matteo Politano and Giovanni Di Lorenzo assisted his goals respectively in the 2-1 win.

The former Weder Bremen and Lille striker explained the reason he grabbed a camera to take a photo during the game.

Osimhen ran towards the away fans to celebrate his second goal, and fellow teammate and Senegal star, Koulibaly handed him a camera from the team’s photographer to take a picture.

“I photograph? The fans deserved a snapshot,” said Osimhen as quoted by corrieredellosport.

“Koulibaly gave me the camera and I took a photo of the fans because they were exceptional again today and it was not taken for granted after the last defeat.”

Victor Osimhen’s celebration was a repeat of what Kalidou Koulibaly did during Napoli’s win against Juventus last September.

The Ivorian grabbed the camera and did the same thing.

“I saw the fans up there and wanted to keep the moment in a photograph, it was too beautiful!” he told DAZN.

“This victory is for them because we missed them for over a year and to see them back in the stands makes us so happy.

“We knew that both teams were missing important players, and it’s a pity we conceded that goal, but we had the right maturity to react and change things.”

Victor Osimhen has now scored a total of nine league goals for Napoli in Serie A this season.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.