Osimhen masks: a new gadget for sale in front of Maradona

By now he has become like a comic book hero: Victor Osimhen, the masked man. And since we are also under Carnival, Neapolitan marketing has invented another one of his. Sunday evening, with Maradona now exploding with passion every time Napoli play, a trade, more or less legal, proliferates around the stadium, with stalls selling all kinds of blue gadgets. And since the genius resides here, where the Parthenope siren was born, yesterday the usual sellers were joined by one who seems to have recorded good business in the hours before the match between Naples and Rome: he offered the Osimhen mask.

The habit of the champion

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Victor Osimhen in November 2021 suffered a serious face injury, with fractures of the facial bones. And when in January of last year he resumed his activity in the field, the Ruggiero orthopedic surgeon had created a mask in carbon fiber to protect the fractures that had just healed. The Nigerian centre-forward should have kept it for a couple of months as a precaution, but the perfect adherence never created any problems with his field of vision or anything else and the blue also started scoring with his header again. And here he continues to use it both in training and in matches “it makes me feel more secure and I like it” clarified the forward. And the numbers say that the masked man has become one of the strongest center forwards in Europe. Of course he is the idol of the fans and above all of the children who ask their parents to dress “as Osimhen” for Carnival, strictly with a mask.