Former Super Eagles Defender Tasks Home-based Eagles On Costa Rica Chance

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Former Super Eagles defender Ifeanyi Udeze has tasked the home-based players invited for the international friendly match against Costa Rica to make huge impression on the coaching crew.

The team will face Costa Rica 3am Nigerian time on Thursday morning which is Nigeria’s penultimate match in the 2022 calendar year.

Udeze spoke on Brila FM Tuesday as monitored by Prime Business Africa  on his expectations from the team that have faced nations heading to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar in tune-up matches.

Udeze was responding to a question on team selection by the Salisu Yusuf led technical crew.

 

READ ALSO: Udeze Casts Doubts Over Victor Osimhen’s AFCON Chances

 

“The thing is that I don’t know how Salisu Yusuf did his selection. The players are in Costa Rica already,” the onetime West Bromwich Albion left back stated on Brila FM.

“I do not subscribe to enforcing players on the coach at whatever level. The coach has the prerogative of inviting players.

“Salisu Yusuf has taken the decision. Whether his players are able to execute what the coach wants is a different thing.

“The players have the opportunity now so they have to make use of it because they may not get it again,” Udeze further posited.

Meanwhile, coach Yusuf’s involvement in the Portugal friendly next week Thursday is in doubt as the Nigeria Football Federation is reportedly mulling the possibility of reducing the number of backroom staff due to financial reasons.

The Eagles have been involved in about five international friendly matches  in 2022 but have not managed to fashion out a win.

Meanwhile the list of invited players for the November 17 high profile international friendly game against Portugal is expected be made known on Monday.

A supposed list of players for the game was made public sometime last week but findings revealed that although the players have been contacted, the final team list could be altered due to player injuries and other sundry issues.

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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