{"id":836376,"date":"2025-03-24T12:12:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/drop-10-boniface-reacts-after-boy-sold-his-gifted-boots-to-rwandan-player-for-100\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T12:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T17:12:46","slug":"drop-10-boniface-reacts-after-boy-sold-his-gifted-boots-to-rwandan-player-for-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/drop-10-boniface-reacts-after-boy-sold-his-gifted-boots-to-rwandan-player-for-100\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDrop 10%\u201d \u2013 Boniface reacts after boy sold his gifted boots to Rwandan player for $100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Super Eagles striker <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/tag\/victor-boniface\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victor Boniface<\/a> has reacted hilariously after a Nigerian boy revealed that he sold the Bayer Leverkusen star\u2019s gifted boots to a Rwandan player for $100, <a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The boy, who had attended Nigeria\u2019s 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Rwanda\u2014a game the Super Eagles lost 2-1\u2014revealed in a video shared by journalist Toyosi Afolayan that Boniface handed him his boots after the match.<\/p>\n<p>However, due to hunger and financial difficulties, the boy was forced to sell the pair gifted to him by the Leverkusen forward to a Rwandan player for $100.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I met a teenage boy in Akwa Ibom who claimed he received a football boot from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SuperEagles?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SuperEagles<\/a> star Victor Boniface (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boniface_jrn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@boniface_jrn<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>You won\u2019t believe what he did next!<\/p>\n<p>Watch \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HfWGSyNpcg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/HfWGSyNpcg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The \u00f3\u00f2\u00ed \u00e1\u2122\ufe0f (@Toyosi4layan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Toyosi4layan\/status\/1903868558364315653?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reacting to the clip, Boniface commented under <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Toyosi4layan\/status\/1903868558364315653\" target=\"_blank\">Brila FM\u2019s post<\/a>, jokingly asking people to help him find the boy so he can get a percentage from the sales.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAbeg, make una find this boy for me. Make he drop 10% of the money ooo\u00a0 [In English, he said \u201cPlease, someone should help me find this boy. He should give me 10% of the money.\u201d]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Abeg make Una find this boy for me<br \/>\nMake he drop 10% of the money ooo<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Victor Boniface (@boniface_jrn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boniface_jrn\/status\/1903879346298712242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Leverkusen forward didn\u2019t stop there. When photojournalist Sulaiman Adebayo, known as Pooja reshared the video, Boniface jokingly added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI for give am jersey ooooo, but this guy fit go sell am again. If I give am money, he fit use am buy jersey too.\u201d [In English he meant, \u201cI would have given him a jersey, but this guy might go and sell it again. If I give him money, he might just use it to buy a jersey too.\u201d]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I for give am jersey ooooo,but this guy fit go sell am again<br \/>\nIf I give am money he fit use am buy jersey too <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Victor Boniface (@boniface_jrn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boniface_jrn\/status\/1903884983628120212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The boy\u2019s story has sparked attention on social media, with many enjoying Boniface\u2019s light-hearted response.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/03\/victor-boniface-rwanda.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Ayomide Oguntimehin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Super Eagles striker Victor Boniface has reacted hilariously after a Nigerian boy revealed that he sold the Bayer Leverkusen star\u2019s gifted boots to a Rwandan player for $100, Soccernet.ng reports. The boy, who had attended Nigeria\u2019s 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Rwanda\u2014a game the Super Eagles lost 2-1\u2014revealed in a video shared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79086,127834,2005],"tags":[127833,5323],"class_list":{"0":"post-836376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drop","8":"category-boniface","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-boniface","11":"tag-drop"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}