Nigerian youngster Victor Osimhen will join Wolfsburg from January next year, the Bundesliga club have announced. According to the ...
Nigerian youngster Victor Osimhen will join Wolfsburg from
January next year, the Bundesliga club have announced.
According to the terms of the deal, the Osimhen agreement
with mark the kick-off of a working relationship between Wolfsburg and Ultimate
Strikers Academy, who hold the Golden Eaglets striker’s rights as we reported yesterday.
“VfL Wolfsburg have agreed on an immediate cooperation with
the Ultimate Strikers Academy from Nigeria,” Wolfsburg wrote on their official
English language website on Thursday.
“Talented individuals from the elite football academy
receive the opportunity to participate in training activities with the teams
from the youth performance centre, the U23 team and also the Bundesliga side as
guest players. Parallel, there is also a multi-faceted exchange programme, with
the focus on a transfer of knowledge to the Ultimate Strikers Academy, to
encourage such elements as modern training techniques, sport medicine or sport
technology.
“The start of the cooperation was marked by the visit of
17-year-old academy and junior international Victor Osimhen to Wolfsburg, where
he will spend several days as a guest, training with the professional
Bundesliga team. Further visits of talented young Nigerian players to Wolfsburg
are already being planned.”
Wolfsburg then insisted that Osimhen, top scorer at the 2015
FIFA U-17 World Cup with a record 10 goals, will not become an official player
for the club until 2017, when he will be 18.
“We are delighted to welcome our first international cooperation
partner, in the Ultimate Strikers Academy, here as VfL Wolfsburg. For talented
youngsters such as Victor Osimhen, it is a major advantage to combine the games
at home with the academy team, with knowledge of youth training and operational
processes in European professional football,” explained VfL’s Director of Sport
Klaus Allofs, who went on to emphasise that the transfer of Victor Osimhen to
VfL had been agreed upon as from January 1st, 2017.
