Nigeria International football player and Africa Footballer of the year Victor Oshimen has told bewildered football fans all over the world that he’s playing football not just for the passion or trophy but for money.
According to him, “I am going to go play in Saudi Arabia where I’ll be making $33-million(N52-billion) per year because Trophies won’t put food on my table or neither will the people advising me to play in Europe feed me if I finish my career and go broke.”
Speaking further, “I was born to very pôor parents in Lagos. I grew up in a place called Olusosun, an area in Lagos state.
Narrating his despondent experience Oshimen said , where I grew up life was so hard that if you were able to eat breakfast, you might not even eat lunch nor dinner. We were never able to have 3 square meals per day. And things got even wôrst when I lôst my Mum, I was about 9-years old then. And 3 months later after my Mum dîed, my father lost his job which was our only means of livelihood.
Then things became very hard for me and my siblings and then we started selling water in the streets of Lagos to make a living. Then I realized that selling water wasn’t helping because we were just living From-Hand-To-Mouth.
It was even tougher because back in Africa, nothing is promised. No one will ever sit you down where I come from and tell that you should believe in yourself and they believe in you but you have to be your own counsellor.
My family never really supported me when I started football because they thought football was a hobby and not a job. When I started football, I gave it my all because I knew that football was the only hope for my family. I play so hard because football is what changed my family’s story and gave us the good life we’re living now.
I am playing football for money and not trophies because my family needs money and trophies won’t bring them money. So I’m gonna go to Saudi Arabia and earn $33-million(N52-billion) because my family needs it.” The Nigerian international Victor Osimhen told football fans of his next move and why.
