FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup: Super Falconets Pip France In Group C Clash

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Nigeria U-20 Women’s football team, the Falconets defeated European champions France 1-0 in their opening Group C game of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in San Jose, Costa Rica in the early hours of Friday reports Prime Business Africa.

Flourish Sabastine scored Nigeria’s only goal in the game in the 85th minute with aplomb after she pounced on a great pass from Esther Idoko.

The game was called off after only 20 minutes due to bad weather as windy conditions and heavy rainfall disrupted the flow of the match ball.

The match resumed after about one hour later albeit there were still some rainfall, this time the match officials considered the playing pitch good enough for the match.

Before Nigeria scored, the French side had a goal overruled five minutes earlier after Video Assistant Referee(VAR) ruled that the Les Blues’ had commited a foul in the buildup.

Nigeria were finalists in the 2010 and 2014 editions of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup losing to Germany on both occasions. They were semifinalists in 2012.

Nigeria’s next game comes up 9pm Nigerian time on Sunday against South Korea.

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.

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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