Izuchukwu OkosiNigeria’s U-20 men and women’s football teams will represent the country in the 2023 Africa Games to be hosted by Ghana March 8th -24th 2024, reports Prime Business Africa.
The Flying Eagles were one of the eight quarterfinalists at the U-20 Africa Cup of Nations Egypt 2023 ans will be joined by seven other nations including Benin, Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Senegal, South Sudan, Tunisia and Uganda.
The decision to have the eight teams participate at the tournament was taken by the CAF Executive Committee, seating in Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire where the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations is currently taking place.
CAF confirmed that the same age category that applied during the U-20 AFCON will be adopted in March for the African Games – previously called ‘The All African Games.’
Meanwhile the Super Falconets, the country’s women’s U-20 national team will fly Nigeria’s flag in Ghana as they were one of the countries that participated in the fourth qualifying rounds of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Costa Rica 2022.
The same age category will be applicable for the women’s football event of the Games with Falconets to be joined by host Ghana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Morocco, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda.
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.
