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Extended Clip - Is Napoli Striker Victor Osimhen The Best At Headers In World Football?
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After scoring a brace in Napoli's Champions League thrashing of Eintracht Frankfurt at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, Nima Tavallaey and Carlo Garganese debate and analyze if Victor Osimhen is the best at headers in world football today.
This is a clip from the weekly Thursday episode of the Italian Football Podcast.
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Transcript
Victor Oseman's Stellar Performance
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Speaker
Welcome to the Italian football podcast. No doubt about it, who the star of the show was, Victor Oseman, yet again.
Is Oseman the Best Header in Football?
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Speaker
He scores two goals. The first goal was absolutely well-class, purely well-class, as there's no doubt about it at all. The question is, and I tweeted this last night, is Victor Oseman now the best in the world when it comes to heading the ball?
Comparing Oseman and Ronaldo's Heading Techniques
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Speaker
I think so. I would say so because of his technique, his leap, the way he jumps, how high he gets, how quickly he gets to that altitude, and the power with which he can muster when jumping up, when standing still, when even moving backwards when jumping like he did against Frankfurt.
00:00:53
Speaker
It was, for me, Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest headers of the ball of all time. I thought his technique was sublime. Osseman is right there with him now. I mean, Jan Koller was a giant. He was one of the greatest of all time. But we're talking, I mean, he was technically a fantastic header.
00:01:13
Speaker
header of the ball. But Cristiano Ronaldo, I've always thought, is never respected in this regard.
Oseman vs Top Players: A Unique Technique
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Speaker
I think he's shown, just go watch the headers that he scores, the leap, how like a cat in the air he was. Victor Osseman has a slightly different technique, but the end result and also the power which we can muster when standing still is just sublime.
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Speaker
he's so i for me yes i think you right now there is no one better. Yeah no no in terms of attacking in terms of attacking in terms of attacking me i mean now that
Oseman's Inspiration from Drogba
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Speaker
i'm simply it's you know it's kim and jay. I mean no no no there's no other another stop level career is over.
00:01:59
Speaker
For me, there's not even a competitor for Osseman. Who else? Tell me. There isn't. And as you said, Politano's cross for that first goal, he was hung up. I'm not saying it was a bad cross, but he was hung up with no pace at all.
00:02:15
Speaker
just hung up in the air and anybody that will tell you that whenever a cross comes into the box or a corner that's just floated into the air it's so so difficult for for you to generate power enough power with your header to try and score and and often you're told to in those cases just head it back across goal for somebody else to to try and score because it's so so difficult
00:02:38
Speaker
Yet this was hung up with no pace. Osseman was not that close to the go either and it was also slightly behind him that he had to generate all the power and the direction on it and he hits the top corner and it was amazing. It was world class and we've seen it now for
Napoli's Aerial Strengths
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for at least a couple of years, especially this season, and his leap is incredible. I mean, he let even higher than Ronaldo earlier in the season. Yeah, he goes Spezia. That's right. And the leap here, I wouldn't mind seeing the measurements on this leap because that was, again, like,
00:03:15
Speaker
like Drogba, his idol. That was Oceman's idol. Growing up, it was Didier Drogba. He worshipped him and he wanted to be like him. Well, Drogba, this was the kind of thing Drogba did when he was in the peak of his career. And he's such a threat from crosses, but also very useful defending the robots. And I think that's another strength of Napoli is that they're obviously, everybody talks about their amazing
00:03:39
Speaker
play on the ground, you know, the passing, the tiki-taka, the patterns of play, you know, they're fantastic. They play football, but they've got a lot of big guys that are fantastic in the air as well.
Napoli's Strengths and Champions League Prospects
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Speaker
We just said it, they've got the best in the air as a forward. They've maybe got the best in the air as defender and Kim, but they've got other guys as well who are also, you know, very good in the air. Di Lorenzo is very good in the air. Rachmani is very, very good in the air. Anguisa is another giant.
00:04:07
Speaker
I mean, you know, they've got five, six players in that team. So they're going to always be a threat from set pieces and they're always, and they're going to be able to defend well from, from corners and set pieces as well. So this is what makes not just awesome. It makes Napoli so complete is that they've got the aerial game, um, as well. But coming back to Osmond, um, yeah, uh, another brilliant game from him, another two goals.
00:04:30
Speaker
We said it so many times. I know Harlan scored five goals the night before, but in terms of completeness, he is the best striker in the world. I just love his mentality. He did an interview at the end of the game with Patrick Kendrick. Patrick Artem, can Napoli win the Champions League? He basically said yes. He said anything's possible, but you could tell he was
00:04:59
Speaker
He really believes in himself and the team. He said he was a team player. He said he was happy for Zelensky taking the penalty so that Winnie could have got his hat trick. So yeah, Osman was brilliant. Napoli were brilliant. And what can you say? What more is there to say about Napoli?