Izuchukwu OkosiManchester City manager, Pep Guardiola is among the finalists for the FIFA Best Awards announced on Thursday.
Guardiola led the Premier League club to a fourth title in five seasons last year albeit City’s so-called domestic titles.
The Spaniard, Domestic is joined on the men’s coaching shortlist by Argentina’s World Cup-winning coach Lionel Scaloni and Carlo Ancelotti, who won a Champions League and LaLiga double with Real Madrid.
Guardiola is the only past winner of the award in the shortlist having won it in 2011 while at Barcelona.
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England manager, Sarina Wiegman is shortlisted after leading the Three Lionesses to the country’s first major title since 1966 when winning the Women’s European Championship.
She is now up against former US. women’s national team coach Pia Sundhage, after the Swede led Brazil to the Copa America Femenina, and Lyon’s French League and Women’s Champions League-winning boss Sonia Bompastor.
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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