Izuchukwu Okosi
The Ghana Football Association, GFA, are hopeful of beating Nigeria to the 2022 FIFA World Cup ticket and could be devising an ingenious means to get one better than their west African rivals.
Former Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr who was sacked by the Nigeria Football Federation in December 2021 has shown interest in takng over from Milovan Rajevac and the GFA might acquiesce to his wishes.
Rajevac was relieved of his duty after Ghana crashed out of the tournament in the first round.
Reliable Ghana news outlet, Ghana Web on Friday claims a source close to Rohr has revealed that the Franco-German would be interested in taking the Ghana job.
“Gernot (Rohr) is very much open to the Ghana job. Ghana football has great potential and his experience of the African game will help him steer the team in the right direction,” the source told Ghana Web.
“His knowledge of African football is deep especially with West African teams. Besides Nigeria, he also handled Burkina Faso and the Niger Republic. Rohr also had a stint with Gabon in 2017. He has now the quality to handle the Black Stars.
“Gernot achieved FIFA World Cup qualification with Nigeria in 2018 and is keen on guiding Ghana to the 2022 edition. Ghana has big-name players like Andre Ayew, Thomas Partey, Daniel Amartey amongst others who are hungry to play at the FIFA World Cup and Gernot can help turn that dream into a reality.”
Ghana has been drawn to face Nigeria in the FIFA World Cup playoffs with the first leg slated for Baba Yara Stadium on March 23 while the second leg is fixed for March 29 at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja.
Gernot Rohr led the Super Eagles to a third-place finish at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.
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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