Galatasary Striker , Victor Osimhen has stated that at the Kick off of his career, there were lots obstacles. His mother's early death made life miserable. While playing at Lille , shock of his father’s death wanted him to stop football.
Read his words below:
“When I moved from Wolfsburg to Lille a few years later, his health started failing. I was away all the time. Then during the beginning of COVID, he went into the hospital. I was stuck in France, all alone.”Football was shut down. The airports were shut down. I was calling my agent, trying to arrange a private flight to Nigeria. I even got clearance from the aviation authority to land. I just needed the club and my agent to say I could leave.”I was waiting, waiting, waiting. “He was getting worse. “So I started panicking. I was calling every hour, begging them. “But that’s when I started to understand the dark side of football. The business. They wanted to sell me, you see? They were discussing a transfer. So my former agent kept telling me, “Well, it’s complicated. Just wait. Just wait.””I was going crazy. I couldn’t sleep. One morning, I woke up and I left my phone downstairs to take a shower. I’ll never forget, I got out of the shower …. and I had a picture of my mother next to my bed, always. I looked at the picture, and I just got a feeling. I started crying. I thought: Something is wrong. Something is so wrong.”I went downstairs and I had 20 missed calls from my family. I called my brother back on FaceTime, and he said, “He’s gone.””Then he turned the camera and showed me my father. “‘You should say goodbye….'”I remember I threw the phone and I just went crazy. I tore up the entire house. Smashed everything. I was out of my mind. The noise made my neighbors come over to check on me, and I love my neighbors. They were like family to me when I was alone in France. The guy was trying to calm me down, telling me that there’s so much to live for. “For 5 or 6 hours, he stayed with me, and he probably stopped me from doing something stupid. “I just felt so guilty, because all of his children and grandchildren were there with him. “Only one person was not by his side. Me. “I was so angry. I snapped. “I thought, If this is football, then what is the point? I just want to be with my family.”I called my former agent, and I said, “Can I go bury my father?””He said, ‘Go ahead. But come back Friday.””I thought, ‘Friday? To hell with football.'”When I flew back home, I really thought that maybe I would never play football again. I was so disgusted with everything. “I tell people all the time “I have seen it all, bro. I have really seen it all.”
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