Izuchukwu Okosi
Super Falcons striker Asisat Oshoala has been shortlisted as one of the final three nominees for the Africa’s Women’s Footballer of the Year award reports Prime Business Africa.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) will on Thursday, July 21 in Rabat, Morocco celebrate deserving African players, coaches and teams for the 2022 CAF Awards.
Barcelona Femini star striker Oshoala who could only play one game at the ongoing Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco against South Africa after she copped a knee ligament injury is Nigeria’s only hopeful for a prize after teammate Gift Monday lost out in the final shortlist for the CAF Young Player of the Year.
Head coach of the Falcons, Randy Waldrum also misses out from the final shortlist for the Coach of the Year category.
The award could be Oshoala’s fifth prize as she has won the gong on four previous occasions.
To complete a treble of misses for Nigeria, Rivers Angels were also not nominated for the Inter-club Team of the Year award.
Oshoala will contend for the award as the continent’s best women player with Cameroon’s Ajara Nchout Njoya and Zambia forward Grace Chanda.
The award ceremony which could not hold in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic will begin 8pm Nigerian time on Thursday.
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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