What has happened with Osimhen & Napoli's TikTok?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
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🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Roberto Calenda, the agent of Napoli striker Victor Osimhen, has threaten the club with legal action for mocking the striker on TikTok.
James Horncastle and Carl Anka join Ayo Akinwolere to dissect and debate the fallout and analyse the impact the social gaff could have for one of Napoli's most prized assets.
With his contract set to end it's final year in the summer, could this incident mark the beginning of the end for Osimhen's time in Naples?
Produced by Guy Clarke
Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:06.7 | Last night on the pitch, it was business as usual for Napoli and Victor Osseman. |
| 0:10.9 | Through to Ozeman! |
| 0:14.6 | And was it ever in doubt? |
| 0:16.5 | But after a heated substitution, TikTok videos, threats of legal action and more. |
| 0:21.4 | Perhaps there are now question marks over the future of one of the most coveted strikers |
| 0:25.5 | in world football. |
| 0:27.3 | So what does the future hold for us in immense time in Naples and who, if anyone, could prize him away? |
| 0:33.5 | I'm Ayahu Akimu Lerere. Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 0:46.1 | In for this one, we have the Athletics Italian football writer James Horncastle as well as Carl Anka. |
| 0:55.4 | James, I have invested interest in this story, not just because I am a super legal fan and a Nigerian, but just because Victor Asimam is an insane striker, he lit up Syria last season, Napoli, finding lifting the |
| 1:01.3 | squadetto for the first time in 30 odd years, and he was integral to that. Yet, there's a |
| 1:06.4 | disconnect between whoever's really their social media and the player himself. So let's just break |
| 1:12.1 | this down, this TikTok debacle. I'm sure so many football fans have seen this been floating |
| 1:17.0 | around in the news and across social media platforms. What has happened with Victor Osseman |
| 1:22.1 | and Napoli's TikTok? So I've never seen anything like this, I are, because what happened on Tuesday evening |
| 1:29.7 | was all of a sudden, Ozzymen's agent, Roberto Calenda, puts out this statement on X, |
| 1:38.2 | and he says that his client has been mocked by the club's official TikTok platform. Now, I'm not on TikTok. I don't |
| 1:47.3 | follow Napoli. So I was completely unaware of this. But on the same day, a video had appeared |
| 1:54.1 | replaying this penalty miss that Osman had missed on Sunday in a nil-nill-nill draw in Bologna. |
| 2:04.2 | And there was this voiceover on the replay, which was, I don't know what it was. |
| 2:11.6 | It's like a squeaky child. |
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