Nigeria Olympic star, Godwin Saviour, on Friday signed a three-year contract with Belgian club, KSV Roeselare, after passing a medical.
“He has signed a contract with Roeselare after passing his medical,” the player’s intermediary, Bertram Ekenwa, told africanFootball.com.
“He has signed a three-year contract with an option for an additional year.”
Saviour featured for another Belgian club KV Oostende on loan last season.
Nigeria U-23 star, Godwin Saviour has already won the heart of the millionaire president of KV Oostende Marc Coucke, who described him as “a gentleman and sportsman”.
KV Oostende staged a massive transfer coup when they won the race for Saviour’s signature ahead of bigger Belgian clubs Anderlecht, Club Brugge and Gent.
The majority shareholder of KVO Coucke hosted Saviour and his agent, Bertram Ekenwa, to a special lunch at his castle along with his family.
He praised the agent for the professional manner the transfer transactions came through.
On his personal Twitter handle, the club boss welcomed the Nigeria star, describing him as a gentleman and a sportsman.
And the following day, Coucke sat beside Ekenwa to watch Saviour feature in a friendly game for the KVO second team.
Coincidentally, Saturday was Saviour’s 19th birthday and he played the entire duration of the game, which the KVO second team lost 4-0 to second division Roeselare.
“I am excited to be here and playing with my teammates was great, though we lost the game. I am very happy to debut, the people around me at the club, the players, coaches and officials are good. They give me hope and confidence,” remarked Saviour after the game.
“I promise to give my best to the team to get to the top.”
The youth international said he looks forward to meeting up with fellow Nigerian Joseph Akpala.
“I have never met him, I watched him play. He is my big brother from Nigeria and happy to have him as my team mate,” he said.
Godwin Saviour scored a hat-trick for Nigeria’s Olympic team against 36 Lion of Lagos in a test match played in Abuja on Saturday.
The Flying Eagles forward gave Samson Siasia’s team a first-half lead with a spectacular overhead kick.
He then scored two more goals after the interval in a game he played on both wings as well as top striker.
Dream Team VI won 4-1 as they step up preparations for a crucial 2016 Olympics qualifier at home against Congo later this month.
Saviour scored twice and provided an assist as Nigeria reached the knockout stage of the recent FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand.
The exciting 18-year-old forward is under the radar of several Belgian clubs including champions Gent and Genk.
… Flying Eagles maul Asians 4-0
Nigeria’s Flying Eagles on Thursday morning defeated the North Korea junior national team 4-0 in a group E match of the ongoing FIFA U-20 World Cup taking place in New Zealand.
The African champions needed a win to restore confidence after dramatically losing 2-4 to Brazil in their opening game of the competition on Monday.
Head coach, Manu Garba dropped the team top stars – Success Isaac, Musa Yahaya and Kelechi Iheanacho from the starting XI with Bernard Bulwa, Saviour Godwin and Kingsley Sokari restored to the starting line up in their place, supersport.com reports.
Goalkeeper, Joshua Enaholo was also given the nod to start despite his blunders against the five-time world champions on Monday.
In a first half lacking in genuine quality, goal chances were at a premium as the Koreans defended in numbers, ostensibly in a bid to avoid a repeat of the humiliating 1-5 reverse suffered against Hungary on match day one.
One of Nigeria’s few clear cut openings in the first half arrived in the 18th minute when Awoniyi was played through by Sokari but the attacker failed to keep his composure in the box and the chance was wasted.
Seven minutes later, Bulbwa was brought down at the edge of the Koran box as the Asians defended for dear life.
Captain, Musa Mohammed delivered the set piece well enough but the Korean goalkeeper, keeper Cha Jong-hun saved unconventionally before beating out the rebound by Awoniyi in impressive fashion.
A minute later, Awoniyi warmed the palms of Jong-hun again as the Nigerian onslaught on the Korean goal continued
The Koreans mustered a couple of half chances before the break but neither side could get the breakthrough.
Surprisingly, it was the underdogs that almost scored first as the second half commenced in frenetic fashion.
Jo Kwang-myong hit the side netting but the effort would not have counted as he had been flagged offside moments earlier.