Izuchukwu OkosiNigeria’s quest to qualify for the 2023 FIBA Men’s World Cup is not over yet despite D’Tigers’ solitary win in Window 4 of the African qualifying campaign according to the Head Coach of the Nigerian team, Mfon Udofia reports Prime Business Africa.
D’Tigers were only able to defeat Guinea but lost to Cote d’Ivoire, Cape Verde and Angola in Window 4 of the qualifiers.
The Ivoroams have picked one of Africa’s five tickets to qualify for the World Cup and four of the tickets are still available.
With the last rounds of qualification games holding in February 2023, Udofia believes the Window 5 will be favorable to D’Tigers.
“It was a tough loss (against Angola on Sunday) for us and I must say that the players fought hard but the victory did not come our way.
“It’s not over for Nigeria yet given that there is another window. We will keep playing and giving our best till the last day of the qualifiers,” the coach told the FIBA website.
The 2023 FIBA Men’s Basketball World Cup will be co-hpsted by Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines.
The women’s national team will not feature at the World Cup this year due to the initial ban by the Nigerian government through the Youth and Sports Ministry albeit that decision was later rescinded.
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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