Izuchukwu OkosiNigeria Professional Football League champions Enyimba on Tuesday got a tricky draw for the preliminary round of the CAF Champions League as they are pitted against Libyan side Al Ahli Benghazi.
Also in the draw conducted by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) runners up in the NPFL Super 6, Remo Stars, will face Ghana’s Medeama.
Enyimba and Remo will play the first legs away from home, and that will be between the 18-20 of August. Then they will return to Nigeria for the return legs one week later.
Should Enyimba win over two legs, they will take on the winner of the tie between Coton Sports(Benin) and ASEC Mimosas(Ivory Coast).
Succes over Medeama will see Remo Stars play the winner of the tie between Bo Rangers (Sierra Leone) and LISCR(Liberia).
If the Nigerian sides manage to survive the four games, they will earn a place in the group stages of the Champions League.
In the Confederations Cup, Nigeria’s representatives, Bendel Insurance and Rivers United, also found out their opponents in the preliminary rounds.
The ‘Edo Arsenal’ as Bendel Insurance are known will play ASO Chlef of Algeria. Victory over two legs will then earn them a date with top Moroccan side RS Berkane.
Rivers United were drawn by in the first round of the competition. They will play the winner of the tie between Ziguinchor and Etoile Filante.
A win for Stanley Eguma’s men would earn them a berth in the group stage of Africa’s second-tier competition.
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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