Super Eagles and Bayer Leverkusen striker Victor Boniface has won the Bundesliga Player of the Month award for August.
Organiser of the German topflight, Bundesliga, made the announcement on their X handle on Thursday.
Boniface beat Xavi Simons of RB Leipzig and German-born Nigerian goalkeeper Noah Atubolu of Freiburg.
“Here’s your VICTOR! ❤️ 🖤,” the league body wrote.
“Congratulations to Victor Boniface on winning the #BundesligaPOTM for August! 🏆 🥳.”
It is Boniface’s second individual award since joining Leverkusen as he was named Rookie of the Month for August.
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The 22-year-old marked his first month in the Bundesliga with two goals and one assist.
His impressive performance earned him a first call-up to the Super Eagles for their final 2023 AFCON qualifier against Sao Tome and Principe.
He marked his debut with an assist, creating the sixth goal scored by Samuel Chukwueze as the Eagles ran out 6-0 winners.
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Big deal!
Congratulations to you, Victor Boniface!!
Perseverance and dedication can take one a long way. You have shown those traits on and off the field.
Wishing you many more successes and injury-free seasons going forward!
Amen. Nigerian strikers are doing well. Victor Osihmen was nominated for FIFA player award.
I had a dream long time ago that Nigeria produced a very good SE team with two Victors in the team. The team was so good having some big tall players. They went ahead to win a tournament, not very clear what that tournament was.
I had hoped those two Victors were going to be Victor Moses and Victor Obinna Nsofor. But sadly that didn’t happen and got me questioning the dream but again, I had some hope to be patient as neither Victor Moses or Victor Obinna Nsofir’s heights resembled what I saw in my dream.
BUT Somehow, ITS LOOKING LIKELY THAT DREAM IS ABOUT TO MATERIALISE AS THESE TWO VICTORS; OSIMENE AND BONIFACE LOOK EVERY INCH THE VICTORS OF MY DREAM BUT WAITING TO SEE WHAT THAT TOURNAMENT WAS.
A big congratulation to you Victor Bomber Boniface and Victor Osimenegooooallls. Please make my dream come through. God bless to you all deserving SE players.
At a point I thought I was reading the masterpiece of Deo but thank Goodness it was a dream by Glory and may your dream come to pass. Heaven Bless SE players as ignatus will sign off!!!
May that dream come true.
The avalanche of strikers we have in Europe who are doing well is crazy!! It reminds me of 1994 era when we have Yekini, Amokachi, siasia, Owobokiri, Ekoku and Ikpeba
Thumbs up Sisterwomam Mercy.
U nailed it.
@ignatius, I don dey suspect you, anytime mercy comment you will always be the first to complement her.Am seriouly watching you. May heaven bless all se fans. Loooooozaazaaa in @ Ignatius language.
Igbekun, unless you are Solo Makinde in disguise, forget about brotherman Mercy. Na man em be.
Hahaha!
You didn’t add my Jewel Emmanuel Amunike who coincidentally discovered Osigoal. With good preparation and coaching Eagles should be walking past opponents but we also need to integrate Jordan and one other solid defender plus Uzoho improving concentration to win major trophies.
This guy is too good of a baller, (burnaball) a very strong and skillfull baller unique brand of a striker, he is capable of deciding games from outside the box, this coming nations cup ehhn, for the supereagles, men mount ooooh
Injury pls respect this guy and all other SE players and let me see how RM won’t sign him next season or even by January transfer window, Especially now that it seems mbappe have use us again to gain more money from his slave master PSG, big VB could be our direct replacement for big Benz. Can’t wait to see him against Bayern Munich tomorrow.
Good observation bro. I had always thought that VB style of playing is similar to Benzema. However, with coach-player relationship I won’t be surprised should Xabi Alonso move to a bigger club, Boniface might join the same club.
Sure and with the way Xabi is going, dnt be surprise seeing him at RM bench next season, now that Raul have been given green light to join Villarreal and our own lazy man ZZ refuse to work since close to 3season now, hopefully xabi guide leverkusen to at least UCL spot by end of season, trust he will be at RM by the time don Carlo leave for Brazil.
In fact,SE gaffer should pair Victors Osimhen and Boniface to get avalanche of goals because the partnership would be solid more so Boniface is not selfish like Osimhen. His assist for Samuel Chukwueze ‘s goal against Sao tome spoke volume ordinarily selfish player would have gone solo in that area of the field to score.
I believe both players would gel together to form a formidable force and apparently be a great threat to defenders.
I hope and pray that our brother ‘s dream would come to reality in Jesus name.
NFF should work on Freiburg goalkeeper of Nigeria descent Noah Atubolu to switch allegiance.
Gbam
Igbekun, you are wasting your time toasting Mercy, unless you are gay.
Mercy na dude. From past posts, it is clear that em no be woman. Na man em be. If I’m wrong, apologies to you and Mercy. Hahaha!
Back to the topic. Congrats to Boni Boy on such a prestigious award. What we saw in his few minutes against Sao Tome was very encouraging. He combined so well with everyone around him. He seems to bring out the best in Chukwueze, as they both combined several times to create panic in the Sao Tome vital area.
Peseiro is in problem. Who will he pick to start alongside Osimhen? Awo is in the form of his life, and Boni has shown himself too. Orban we never see yet, but he likely is also another beast of a forward. A great headache for a coach to have. Just pick any 2 out of these four, and they will give you goals.
That is why Peseiro collected a pay cut so he could stay and add this great generation of Nigerian players to his resume. Naija is blessed. E plenty! E dey rush! 🙂