{"id":4062,"date":"2023-10-31T00:39:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T23:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/31\/victor-osimhen-voted-as-the-eighth-best-player-in-the-world-in-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T00:39:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T23:39:33","slug":"victor-osimhen-voted-as-the-eighth-best-player-in-the-world-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2023\/10\/31\/victor-osimhen-voted-as-the-eighth-best-player-in-the-world-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Osimhen voted as the eighth best player in the world in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Super Eagles and Napoli star forward Victor Osimhen has been voted as the eighth best player in the world in the 2023 Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony in Paris.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old striker was instrumental for the Partenopei as they claimed a first league crown since 1990. He won the league\u2019s Capocannoniere and was named as the Striker of the Year with 26 goals and four assists in 32 league appearances.<\/p>\n

The Nigerian striker also scored five goals in six UEFA Champions League appearances for Napoli as they reached their farthest in the competition, bowing out to AC Milan in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Osimhen is the highest scoring African in the history of the Italian Serie A, and the only African nominee for this year\u2019s FIFA The Best Men\u2019s Player of the Year award. He has finished in eighth place and is the first Nigerian to break into the top ten of the award, surpassing Kanu Nwankwo\u2019s 11th place finish of 1999.<\/p>\n

Super Falcons and FC Barcelona Femeni ace Asisat Oshoala finished in 20th place in the women\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or voting as teammate Aitana Bonmati picked up her first Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Victor Osimhen celebrated by CAF Super Eagles and Napoli star forward Victor Osimhen has been voted as the eighth best player in the world in the 2023 Ballon d\u2019Or ceremony in Paris. The 24-year-old striker was instrumental for the Partenopei as they claimed a first league crown since 1990. He won the league\u2019s Capocannoniere and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}