Izuchukwu Okosi
Chelsea winger Calum Hudson-Odoi has reportedly agreed to change allegiance and play for the country of his father Ghana ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup playoffs against Nigeria in March.
The Ghana Football Association on the insistence of the Ghana government are poised to announce the appointment of former Newcastle and Norwich City manager Chris Houghton.
Houghton has been meeting with payers of Ghanaian heritage playing across Europe and one of them is Hudson-Odoi who has represented England at youth level.
As pictured in our featured image, the incoming coach has been speaking with Hudson-Odoi senior.
The change of allegiance according to FIFA takes a minimum of six months to be ratified and it is unlikely that the Bayern Munich target could face the Super Eagles next month.
However following a series of discussions with the player and his father it is understood that once Houghton is confirmed as the new Black Stars head coach, Hudson-Odoi will nonetheless announce his decision to represent Ghana at the senior level.
Brighton and Hoves right back Tariq Lamptey is another player of Ghana origin that the incoming coach is also hoping to convince to play for the west African country.
The switch from England to a different federation in a different continent is made even more stringent because the English FA has other affiliates who need to sign off the papers before a player is cleared by FIFA and it requires time.
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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