Napoli’s Victor Osimhen has emerged as the highest goal scorer in the Italian Serie A 2023/2023 season with 26goals.
Capocannoniere’ is an Italian word that literally translates to ‘head gunner’ and it is the title of the top scorer in every Serie A season, although the award has officially been renamed the Paolo Rossi Award in 2021.
No African has ever won the won.
Senegalese winger Keita Balde had an impressive 2016/17 campaign for Lazio when he scored 16 goals but still finished a long way behind Edin Dzeko who won the award for that season with 29 Serie A goals.
Nigerian striker Simy Nwankwo put up an unlikely, yet credible challenge for Capocannoniere in the 2020/21 season when he scored 20 goals for Crotone.
The closest any African has come so far was all the way back in the 2010/11 season when Samuel Eto’o scored 21 goals for Inter Milan to finish third in the race.
The Cameroonian striker was outdone by Napoli’s Edinson Cavani with 26 goals and Antonio Di Natale who scored 28 goals for Udinese.
