Dan wasan gaba na Najeriya Victor Osimhen ya kalli gaban wasan kwallon kafa na gasar cin kofin kasashen Afrika a rukunin C tsakanin Najeriya da Tanzaniya a filin wasa na Fez da ke Fes a ranar 23 ga Disamba, 2025. (Hoto daga Abdel Majid BZIOUAT / AFP)
A cikin 2019, Victor Osimhen Ya fara buga gasar cin kofin nahiyar Afirka da aka yi a Masar, inda ya shafe mintuna 45 kacal a wasan da suka yi da Tunisia a matsayi na uku, inda Super Eagles ta samu nasara da ci 1-0 a birnin Alkahira.
Yayin da takwarorinsa, ma’aikatan fasaha da sauran jami’ai ke shagaltuwa da bikin “tagulla na zinare” a otal din Le Meridian Cairo, Osimhen, wanda a lokacin yana taka leda a Sporting Charleroi a Belgian Jupiler, ya ba da sanarwar cewa Masar 2019 AFCON babban tsari ne na koyo a gare shi da wasu matasa ‘yan wasa.
“Na yi farin cikin samun wasu kwarewa a gasar gasa a wannan gasar,” in ji shi The Guardian. “Kowa, musamman ni kaina, har yanzu yana kan hanyar koyo, yana da tarihi cewa na buga gasar AFCON ta farko a nan Masar 2019. Wannan shi ne mataki mafi girma a kwallon kafa na Afirka kuma babbar nasara ce a gare ni,” in ji shi.
Ga Osimhen, Masar 2019 AFCON ta kasance wani tsani ga zamaninsa. “Mun mallaki wannan fili, kuma a nan gaba za mu mamaye gasar cin kofin Afrika, don haka abubuwan da na taru a Masar tabbas za su taimake ni,” in ji shi.
A bisa furucinsa, Osimhen ya daukaka wasan kwallon kafa tun daga Masar 2019, inda ya zama gwarzon dan kwallon Afrika a shekarar 2023, ya kuma fice daga wata babbar kungiyar Turai zuwa waccan.
Amma har yanzu Osimhen mutum ne mai bakin ciki, biyo bayan gazawarsa wajen cimma babban burinsa na ‘mallaka sararin samaniya’ wanda ke lashe kofin AFCON.
Shekaru biyu bayan Masar 2019, Osimhen ya fice daga cikin tawagar Super Eagles, wacce ta fafata a Kamaru 2021 AFCON bayan gwajin COVID-19 mai inganci. Bayan haka, Osimhen yana ci gaba da murmurewa daga karayar fuska, wanda ya ci gaba da bugawa Napoli wasa a watan Nuwamba 2020. Kungiyar da Koci Augustine Eguavoen ya jagoranta a karshe ta dawo gida da mafi muni bayan ta fice daga gasar a zagaye na 16.
Kuma shekaru biyu da suka gabata a Cote d’Ivoire, Osimhen da ‘yan kungiyar sun kusa lashe kofin AFCON, amma sun sha kashi a hannun mai masaukin baki. A kasar Morocco, an hada komai na Super Eagles ne da Osimhen. Daga titin Fes zuwa Casablanca, Marrakech da Rabat, sunan Osimhen ya buga kararrawa.
Ga mafi yawan magoya bayan Morocco, Osimhen ya zo na daya a matsayin ‘yan wasa fiye da dansu, Achraf Hakimi, duk da cewa shi ne gwarzon dan kwallon Afrika a halin yanzu.
Tun daga matakin rukuni har zuwa zagaye na 16 a birnin Fes, ihun Osimhen, Osimhen ya kan yi ta zagayawa a filin wasa a duk lokacin da Super Eagles ta kasa samun ci. Osimhen ya kai hudu kuma ya taimaka.
Sai dai duk abin da zai dade ana kirgawa, domin Super Eagles ta kasa samun nasara a gasar a daren ranar Laraba, inda ta samu bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida guda biyu a fafatawar da suka yi da Morocco.
Super Eagles dai ba ta taba doke mai masaukin baki ba a gasar AFCON wasan knockout (ban da na matsayi na uku), kuma yawancin ‘yan Najeriya sun yi fatan ganin an kawo karshen jinx a Rabat.
A Algiers ’90 Super Eagles ta sha kashi a hannun Algeria da ci 1-0 a wasan karshe, kuma a Tunisia 2004, Najeriya ta kara da mai masaukin baki, Tunisia ta tashi 1-1 a wasan kusa da na karshe, amma Tunisia ta ci 5-3 a bugun fenariti.
A Ghana a shekara ta 2008, Super Eagles ta yi rashin nasara a hannun mai masaukin baki da ci 1-2, Ghana a wasan daf da na kusa da na karshe, kuma a wasan karshe na AFCON a Cote d’Ivoire, Super Eagles ta sha kashi a hannun mai masaukin baki da ci 1-2 a wasan karshe.
Baya ga gazawar da Super Eagles ta yi a bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida a bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida, a daren Larabar da ta gabata a Rabat, inda Morocco ta samu nasara da ci 4-2 a bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida bayan mintuna 120 da babu ci.
Rashin nasarar ya yi daidai da bakin cikin da Najeriya ta samu a Maroko a watan Nuwamban da ya gabata, lokacin da Super Eagles ta yi waje da Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Kongo a bugun daga kai sai mai tsaron gida a gasar cin kofin duniya ta 2026. Baya ga rufe kofar lashe gasar cin kofin Nahiyar Turai karo na hudu a Najeriya, rashin nasarar da aka yi a Rabat na nufin burin Osimhen na kara kambun gasar AFCON a gasar zakarun sa ya samu tsaiko.
Baya ga tsawon dakon da ake yi na lashe kofin AFCON, Osimhen da wasu ‘yan wasan da ke cikin tawagar Super Eagles a halin yanzu za su yi addu’a sosai don neman koken da Najeriya ta shigar a kan DR Congo domin ganin rana ta yi da za su halarci gasar cin kofin duniya ta FIFA a fagen wasansu.
Sun rasa damar a Qatar 2022 kuma rashin buga 2026 yana da mahimmanci, saboda wasu daga cikinsu ba za su kasance a cikin tawagar ba lokacin da Morocco ta karbi bakuncin gasar cin kofin duniya na 2030 saboda shekaru, wanda zai iya haifar da raguwa a cikin wasan.
