Izuchukwu OkosiNigerian Premier Football League champions Enyimba Football Club suffered a crushing 3-0 second leg defeat to Moroccan side, Wydad Casablanca in the reverse fixture of their quarterfinals match on Thursday night to be dumped out of the competition, reports Prime Business Africa.
The Peoples Elephant had lost the first leg 1-0 at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium, Uyo which made the return leg a herculean task.
The game was originally scheduled to hold on Wednesday but Finidi George’s team were reportedly denied travelling permit by the Moroccans.
The Aba millionaires conceded first on Thursday through Ayoub El Amloud four minutes into the game after he was set up by Yahya Jabran.
The home team doubled their advantage 38th minute through Jamal Harkass. Attiyat-Allah netted the third goal two minutes before halftime to all but score passage to the semifinals.
The Moroccan club will now lock horns with Esperance of Tunisia in the semi-final of the African Football League.
Esperance beat TP Mazembe of DR Congo 3-1 on aggregate to progress to the semifinals of the inuagural edition of the Africa Football League.
Despite their exit, Enyimba earned the sum of &1m (about N1. 2 billion) for participating in the 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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