Izuchukwu OkosiFlying Eagles head coach Ladan Bosso has pleaded with Nigerian football stakeholders to be patient with his team amid criticisms about the average performances put out by the team in the ongoing 13th African Games holding in Ghana, reports Prime Business Africa.
The Nigeria U-20 side lost their first Group B game 2-1 against Uganda but managed to scrape a 1-0 win against South Sudan in their second group game.
Ahead of the team’s last game in the group stage against Senegal on Friday, Bosso, who is the President of the Nigeria Coaches Association spoke to the media ahead of the match with the francophone West African foes.
“I know the feelings in Nigeria about our performance but as a coach, I am not too happy like that,” Bosso admitted.
Bosso was in charge of the Flying Eagles squads to the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup and also in 2023.
“Before the African Games we only have few days to prepare not even a month so the players cannot quickly meet the expectations of fans.
“All I am trying to say is that this is not the time to criticise the team instead they should continue supporting and praying for us,” the onetime Wikki Stars of Bauchi coach said.
Flying Eagles on Tuesday worked on theor shooting skills and is said to be satisfied by the efforts put by his players.
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.
