Italian giants Inter Milan have won the race for the signing of 18 year old Nigeria midfielder Ebenezer Akinsanmiro from the youth ranks of Nigeria Professional Football League side Remo Stars as first reported by OGN.

He has been officially unveiled as a player of the team but will spend time with the B team from where his development will be monitored for promotion to the main team.

Akinsanmiro stole the show at the prestigious Viareggio youth tournament in Italy, where he represented the U18 of the NPFL side called Alex Transfiguration FC. They finished as runners up to Sassuolo.

He however did enough to catch the attention of top teams in Europe and earlier today,  a deal with Inter Milan became official following the completion of the paper works with his team  Remo Stars.

Inter Milan saw off competition from Benfica and also Real Madrid to seal the signing of the teen star, who will be a part of the strengthening of their U19 team who are champions of the U19 League in Italy. They however need new players as most of the key players have made the step up to the main team.

Good at winning back possession and also playing line breaking passes. He scored two goals in six games at the tournament but his movements with the ball at his feet, ability to pick a pass and also score and assists made him stand out among the midfielders at the tournament.

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The goal scoring run of Victor Osimhen and his international teammate Ademola Lookman in the English Premier League has made the coach of the Nigerian team Jose Peseiro to rejig the playing style of the team.

Osimhen has 14 goals in the Italian Serie A this season for table toppers Napoli. He is also the competition leading goal scorer and second to him is Lookman who has 12 goals for Atalanta, this team he joined in the summer from German side RB Leipzig.

Their form was part of the question posed to coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Peseiro ahead of the next international round of games in March, where Nigeria will take on Guinea Bissau in back to back Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers game.

The coach said, it’s only normal for the team to find a way of playing that will make the duo replicate their fine form at club level in the senior national team of Nigeria. He said it’s why he is going for a change of style when they play in the AFCON qualifiers.

“We played against Mexico, against Portugal, against Algeria away, to check the possibility to play offensive football, high pressure, because that’s our way. I think we have the capacity and the players for that, but we need to check our development and the way we play”, he said.

The coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro was among the spectators who watched the Nigeria U20 team in their latest friendly game which ended in a 4-0 win over Capital City Football Academy.

Samson Lawal opened scoring for the Ladan Bosso tutored lad before left full back Solomon Agbalaka slammed home the second goal with a powerful header from a corner kick. Team’s new striker Adams Olamilekan made it 3-0 to put the game beyond the reach of the Abuja based side.

As at the time of filing in this report, details about the scorer of the fourth goal for the Africa U20 Cup of Nations bound team were sketchy. There was however no such issue with the presence of coach of the senior national team of Nigeria.

Peseiro was visibly present at the team’s training ground where the game was played and after the game, the Portuguese coach explained the reason behind his decision to watch the team ahead of the friendly game against Zambia.

“I came here to watch their training and to meet with the players. I came to show support and then on Friday I’ll be looking forward to watching the team against Zambia”, he told press men after the game.

Pressed on if he thinks players of the team can make the step up to the senior national team of Nigeria, he said it is possible but it’s a step at a time insisting for now they should be focused on winning a spot in the final list of players for the U20 AFCON.

“Yes of course, now they play, they must put in their best for the U-20 and fight for a place at the AFCON” he stated.

The January transfer window will slam shut tomorrow across the major leagues in the world and it means players wanting to make deadline day moves have to use the quickest means of transportation to their destination.

Nigerian players will not be left out of the frenzy which is expected to happen tomorrow and one who is on the brinks of joining a new team has already arrived the city of his new side, while he awaits both teams to agree on terms of the deal.

That player is Ligue 1 goal getter Terem Moffi who is leaving Lorient to fellow Ligue 1 side OGC Nice for a record fee in the region of €30m. He shunned move to English Premier League side West Ham and also another Ligue 1 side Marseille.

Moffi was pictured boarding a private jet which we were made to understand will fly him to the city of his new team, where he will undergo a routine medical before putting pen to paper on a deal which will run till 2027.

23 year old Moffi has 12 goals in 18 games this season. Putting himself in the bracket of the top three highest goal scorers in the league this season. Lorient were forced to cash in on him as his deal will have just a year to run at the end of this season.

The coach of the Nigeria U20 team Ladan Bosso has made a late change to his final list of players for the U20 Africa Cup of Nations, which will begin in Egypt next month.

Bosso has already submitted a 30 man provisional list of players from where he will pick 25 for a training tour of Morocco, which will be the last step before a final list of 21 players will be picked for the tournament proper.

The coach was forced to making changes to the list of players with two players moving from the 30 man list to the list of 25 players for the training tour of Morocco. The reason behind the late change wasn’t made public as at the time of this report.

Also, Bosso has names the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the WAFU B championship Daniel Daga as the new captain of the team, another move which we exclusively gathered, was taken in respect to the leadership qualities of the midfielder despite the fact that he is one of the youngest in the team.

He will wear the armband for the first time on Saturday when they take on the Zambia U20 team in an international friendly game in Abuja. Both countries are using the game to fine tune preparations for the U20 AFCON, which serves as the qualifiers for the U20 World Cup.

Italian gjants Inter Milan have won the race for the signing of 18 year old Nigeria midfielder Ebenezer Akinsanmiro from the youth ranks of Nigeria Professional Football League side Remo Stars, OwnGoalNigeria.com understands.

Akinsanmiro stole the show at the prestigious Viareggio youth tournament in Italy, where he represented the U18 of the NPFL side called Alex Transfiguration FC. They finished as runners up to Sassuolo.

He however did enough to catch the attention of top teams in Europe and according to Italian news outlet TuttoMercatoWeb, a deal with Inter Milan is near completion following an agreement with Remo Stars for the 18 year old.

They said Inter Milan saw off competition from Benfica and also Real Madrid to seal the signing of the teen star, who will be a part of the strengthening of their U19 team who are champions of the U19 League in Italy. They however need new players as most of the key players have made the step up to the main team.

Good at winning back possession and also playing line breaking passes. He scored two goals in six games at the tournament but his movements with the ball at his feet, ability to pick a pass and also score and assists made him stand out among the midfielders at the tournament.