Izuchukwu OkosiPortuguese side Benfica booked their spot in the UEFA Champions League group stage following their 3-0 win on Tuesday night against Dynamo Kyiv in the second leg of the qualifying stage reports Prime Business Africa.
Benfica had defeated Dynamo Kyiv 2-0 in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League play-off tie and now advances to the group stages with a 5-0 aggregate win.
The draw for the group stage draw will hold on Thursday evening at 5pm Nigerian time.
Following their victory, Benfica makes it to the Pot 3 of the draw ceremony.
UCL Group Stage Confirmed Draw Pots:
Pot 1: Real Madrid, Frankfurt, Man City, AC Milan, Bayern, PSG, Porto, Ajax
Pot 2: Liverpool, Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico, Sevilla, Leipzig, Spurs
Pot 3: Dortmund, Salzburg, Shakhtar, Inter, Napoli, Benfica, Sporting, Leverkusen
Pot 4: Marseille, Club Brugge, Celtic, ViktoriaPlzeň, Maccabi Haifa
The final ties in the qualifiying stages will hold on Wednesday evening with the winners joining the lucky teams in the draw.
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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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