Osimhen: How ex-Eagles star kicked me out of Iheanacho’s room during my first call-up

Osimhen: How ex-Eagles star kicked me out of Iheanacho’s room during my first call-up

Victor Osimhen has narrated how he was mistreated by a senior Super Eagles player during his first call-up to the national team camp.

Osimhen recounted the experience in a chat with Carter Efe during a livestream session in the early hours of Saturday.

The Galatasaray striker was 17 when he got his first-ever call-up to the Eagles camp. Osimhen made his debut for the senior national team in 2017 in a 2-0 loss to South Africa.

Speaking about his relationship with the older players during his first camp with the team, Osimhen revealed how an unnamed “big player” tried to kick him out of Kelechi Iheanacho’s room during a visit.

“When I came, I met Iheanacho. And I told him, ‘Ah, see me, I’m gonna carry your boots.’ So he said I should come to his room, so he gave me his room number,” Osimhen said.

“So, as I got to his room — I don’t just want to mention the name — he had a roommate. So, as I knocked on the door, the roommate opened the door. So, he like bounced me out of the room,”

He added that Iheanacho, however, stepped in and showed into the room after telling off the player who had tried to eject him.

“Iheanacho showed up and was angry at him, saying, ‘You see that someone came to see me in my room and you are chasing him from my room.’ So Iheanacho took my hand and took me inside,”

Osimhen has made over 50 appearances for the Super Eagles since then. He has scored 35 goals, with just two behind Rashidi Yekini on the team’s all-time goalscoring list.

Osimhen also won the African Player of the Year award in 2023, becoming the first Nigerian to win it since 1999.