Soccer Football - Serie A - Parma v Napoli - Stadio Ennio Tardini, Parma, Italy - September 20, 2020 Napoli’s Dries Mertens celebrates scoring their first goal with Victor Osimhen REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo
PARMA, Italy (Reuters) - Napoli coach Gennaro Gattuso is notoriously hard to please but he dished out rare praise on Sunday when describing new Nigerian signing Victor Osimhen as a "young lad with the head of a 40-year-old".
Osimhen, who became Napoli's record signing when he joined from Lille in the summer for a reported 70 million euros, was brought on for his debut after an hour of Sunday's Serie A match at Parma and made an instant impact in their 2-0 win.
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