Flamingos Play Colombia In Wednesday's U-17 Women’s World Cup Semifinals Clash 
Flamingos Play Colombia In Wednesday's U-17 Women’s World Cup Semifinals Clash 

Flamingos Play Colombia In Wednesday’s U-17 Women’s World Cup Semifinals Clash 

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Nigeria’s U-17 female team, The Flamingos, will lock horns with Colombia in the semi-final of the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in India on Wednesday.

Nigeria defeated USA 4-3 via penalty shoot-out on Friday to book their place in the semi-finals. The game was forced into penalty shoot-out after the 90 minutes of good football ended 1-1.

Meanwhile, Colombia defeated Africa’s other representative, Tanzania, 3-0, in Saturday evening’s quarter-final tie.

READ ALSO:5 Takeaways From Flamingos’ Win Against USA

The semi-final clash between Nigeria and Colombia will kick off 12 noon, Nigerian time (on Wednesday), 26 October.

Interestingly, Flamingos have won all their games scheduled for 12 noon in the ongoing tournament. The only  match in which they lost to Germany was  kicked off at  3.30 p.m. Nigerian time.

In the second semi-finals pairing, Germany#, who beat Brazil 2-0 on Friday, will face Spain.

Spain had come from behind to beat Japan 2-1 in a Saturday quarter final match  that was adjudged ‘very action-packed.’

 

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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