"Segun Odegbami reacts as Victor Osimhen breaks his long-standing record

• AFCON victor Segun Odegbami has praised erstwhile CAF Player of the Year Victor Osimhen for smashing his nationalist goal-scoring record
• The Galatasaray striker scored a brace against Rwanda astatine the Amahoro Stadium during their 2026 World Cup qualifiers connected Friday night
• Nigeria secured a triumph successful their CAF Qualification Group C matches, earning six points from 5 games and moving up to 4th position

Nigeria shot fable Segun Odegbami has commended erstwhile CAF Player of the Year Victor Osimhen for breaking his nationalist goal-scoring record.

The 72-year-old's 23-goal grounds for the Super Eagles stood for 44 years earlier the erstwhile CAF Player of the Year surpassed it.

The All-African Games metallic medalist played for Nigeria from 1976 to 1981, scoring 23 goals.

Super Eagles guardant Victor Osimhen has overtaken Nigeria fable Segun Odegbami arsenic the country's second-highest extremity scorer. Photo by: ISSOUF SANOGO.
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Odegbami eulogise Osimhen

Segun Odegbami has expressed his happiness aft Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen broke his long-standing goal-scoring grounds for the nationalist team.

According to Punch, the erstwhile Shooting Stars subordinate noted that his grounds had stood for truthful agelong without immoderate erstwhile strikers surpassing him.

The 72-year-old added that the erstwhile Lille subordinate is inactive young and can execute adjacent greater feats with the Super Eagles. He said:

“Osimhen has yet overtaken maine and I deliberation that is bully due to the fact that the grounds has been hanging connected for a precise agelong time. I americium precise blessed for him and I privation to accidental bully luck to him.“He is inactive young and helium has a agelong mode to go.”

Galatasaray guardant Victor Osimhen scored a brace (24th and 25th goals) for Nigeria during Friday’s 2-0 triumph implicit Rwanda successful the 2026 World Cup qualifier successful Kigali.

Osimhen made his Super Eagles debut successful June 2017 during a 2-0 decision to South Africa per Goal.

The erstwhile Lille subordinate has 20 goals and 4 assists successful 22 appearances for Galatasaray successful the 2024/25 Super Lig play per Transfermarkt.

Nigeria fable Segun Odegbami says the Super Eagles guardant has the imaginable to make his record. Photo by: Paul Gilham.
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Odegbami Impressed with Super Eagles' Performance

Ex-international Segun Odegbami has praised the Super Eagles squad nether manager Eric Chelle.

The 'Mathematical' commended the team's singular show against Rwanda, noting that they secured a convincing triumph aft playing unattractive football for the past 10 years. He said:

“I americium truly impressed with the Eagles show successful Kigali and that is their astir convincing triumph successful 10 years.

The 72-year-old played for Nigeria betwixt 1976 and 1981 scoring a full of 23 goals arsenic good arsenic lifting the 1980 Africa Nations Cup.

Odegbami powerfully down Chelle

Legit.ng earlier reported that Segun Odegbami has expressed confidence that Super Eagles manager Eric Chelle volition physique a formidable squad with the players available.

The erstwhile Super Eagles skipper stated that the Malian manager has demonstrated the quality to bring backmost the aureate epoch of Nigerian football.

He said Eric Chelle has been collating the information of in-form Nigeria stars astatine location and overseas adding that helium is compelled to enactment the Malian.

Chief Odegbami claimed to person gotten an penetration into the coach’s blueprint for the Super Eagles.

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