Barcelona, Bayern Munich Set To Battle In Champions League

Competition kicks off on September 6
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The group stage draws of the 2022/2023 UEFA Champions League was held Thursday evening in Istanbul, Turkey with Barcelona, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich and Viktoria Plzen making up Group C of the competition in what undoubtedly is the toughest group in the UEFA Champions League.

A clash between the Spanish and German giants, Barcelona and Bayern will also mark the return of Robert Lewandowski, who left the Munich outfit earlier in the year.

This will interestingly be the second straight season when Barcelona and Bayern Munich will face each other in the group stage. Barcelona had failed to make it past the group stage last year and went down into the UEFA Europa League

Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen and his Napoli teammates will face Liverpool, Rangers and Calvin Bassey’s Ajax in Group A.

Group B contains Zaidu Sanusi’s Porto, Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen and Club Brugge

Eintracht Frankfurt, Tottenham Hotspur, Sporting CP, Olympique de Marseille make up Group D.

AC Milan, Chelsea, Salzburg and GNK Dinamo Zagreb are in Group E while champions Real Madrid was drawn in Group F with Germany’s RB Leipzig, Celtic FC and Ukrainian champion Shakhtar Donetsk.

Premier League champions Manchester City with Pep Guardiola in charge will face challenge from his former Bundesliga rivals Borussia Dortmund and Sevilla in Group G. Denmark’s FC Copenhagen make up the group.

Billionaires Paris Saint Germain, Juventus, Benfica and Maccabi Haifa are housed in Group H.

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.

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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