Izuchukwu OkosiNigeria’s Super Eagles are the fourth-ranked national team whose match tickets for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire have been sold out according to the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF).
The host, Cote d’Ivoire, who is one of Nigeria’s group opponents, is the team that has recorded the highest number of tickets with 32,307 already sold out as of Thursday, December 28.
Another of Nigeria’s group opponents, Guinea-Bissau sold the second-highest number of tickets with 28,314 to come second behind the hosts.
The three-time African champions, Nigeria will face Equatorial Guinea on January 14 in their first game of the tournament and the Guineans have sold a total of 16,237 tickets.
Nigeria’s sold tickets ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations stands at 12,544 while Senegal is fifth in that order with a total of 10,959 tickets in total.
The significance of the numbers released by CAF indicates that all the teams in Group A of the tournament have attracted the biggest attention as all four teams aside from Senegal are on the ‘Top 5 list’ for most tickets sold.
The Super Eagles final squad for the tournament are yet to be announced with about four having already made known their teams.
Super Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro is said to be at loggerheads with the Nigeria Football Federation over the number of players to make his team to Côte d’Ivoire.
The Portuguese is said to prefer to take 25 players which he claimed he can ‘manage’ while the Nigeria Football Federation egg heads want the gaffer to maximize the advantage of taking 27 players to the tournament.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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