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Victor Osimhen is a Nigerian soccer player born in 1998 who has become one of Africa's most prominent football talents. He matters because of his skill as a striker and his success playing for major European clubs, making him an important figure in both African and global football.
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Film & TV
Acting · Lagos, Nigeria
Known for
- Sarò con te — Himself2024
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Chile
- Active from
- 1932-09-28
- Active to
- 1973-09-16
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14
- Total plays
- 33
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Victor+Osimhen">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment
· 2005 · cited 21,956x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,613x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 15,192x
via Crossref · CC0
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Galatasaray
- Position
- Forward
- Nationality
- Nigeria
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nigeria
- Place of birth
- Lagos
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Participant in
- SSC Napoli
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Galatasaray S.K.
- Position played
- forward
- League
- Q15804
- Country for sport
- Nigeria
- Mass
- 78
- Image
- Victor-osimhen-nigeria-2024-3-4.jpg
- Height
- 186
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1998-12-29
- sport number
- 45
- start of work period
- 2017-00-00
- Commons category
- Victor Osimhen
- birth name
- Victor James Osimhen
- name in native language
- Victor Osimhen
Sources (10)
via Wikidata · CC0
~29 min read
Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20:50, 9 May 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 22:30, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
Victor James Osimhen MFR MON (born 29 December 1998) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Süper Lig club Galatasaray and is the vice-captain of the Nigeria national team. He is known for his explosive pace, physical strength, aerial ability, and clinical finishing.
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