85 times champions of Portugal Benfica have completed the signing of 18 year old Nigerian forward Peter Osayande Edokpolor from Nigerian academy N-Youth Sports, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Peter have been training with the team for a while and did enough to convince the hierarchy of the club to offer him a deal, which was made official by the club yesterday.
He is expected to start from the lower division which is with the U23 of the club from where his performance will be monitored for a possible promotion to the main team.
The club sees his signing as a coup because they beat other comers to his signing, which was possibly by offering him a faster route to the first team of the team based on his performance. He will also be offered the chance to train with the main team once in a while.
In recent times, he is the second Nigerian to sign for the Portuguese giants following in the footsteps of Tyronne Ebuehi in 2018, but his stay at the club was distorted after picking up an ACL injury on the eve of their first league game, and subsequently missing two years due to the complications before his eventual departure two seasons ago.
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