Bayer Leverkusen: Boniface reveals key reason for transfer

Newcomer studied videos

With twelve goals and six assists in 18 competitive games, Victor Boniface is one of the guarantors of Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen’s successful run. There was a reason why the Nigerian center forward moved to the “Werkself” in the summer: “Clearly Florian Wirtz,” said the 22-year-old in an interview with “Sports buzzer“. Before his move, Boniface studied videos of the Leverkusen players.

He didn’t know Wirtz (20), the third most valuable player born in 2003, until that point. “But after just that one game it was clear to me that Flo was a brilliant footballer, a magician. When my agent told me about Bayer’s interest, it was immediately clear to me that I would really like to play in a team with him,” revealed the attacker, who signed in the summer for 20.5 million euros from Belgian first division club Royale Union Saint-Gilloise came. In his home country of Nigeria, every football fan now knows Bayer Leverkusen.

And Bayer Leverkusen suddenly knew Boniface very well when he scored in the quarter-final first leg of the Europa League last season. The quarter-final in Leverkusen was one of the games I particularly love, where you get the opportunity to show the entire football world what you can do. The fact that I played and scored quite well at the BayArena was probably one reason why Bayer were interested in me,” explained the offensive man, who saw a rapid jump from 12 million to 40 million in the Bundesliga’s last market value update. Euro put down.

Boniface last scored on Thursday in a 2-0 win in the Europa League against Swedish Cup winners BK Häcken – Leverkusen is now in the round of 16 early. Leverkusen is also still unbeaten in the Bundesliga. Coach Xabi Alonso played a big part in this. “He was at the top as a player, winning pretty much everything you can win: Champions League with Real and Liverpool, the World and European Championship titles with Spain. And he played under three of arguably the best coaches: José Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, Pep Guardiola. Like these coaches, he is a strategist who understands the game down to the smallest facet. But he is also a fighter and always demands 100 percent from us,” said Boniface.

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