Izuchukwu Okosi
Super Eagles new head coach Jose Peseiro will earn Seventy Thousand dollars ($70, 000.00) as monthly salary for initial 12-month contract following the confirmation of his appointment on Sunday by the Nigeria Football Federation.
Peseiro who was recommended to the Nigeria Football Federation by AS Roma manager Jose Mourinho will pay his two incoming personal assistants from the salary which is about N29m.
The contract is expected to run for an initial one-year before a possible renewal probably after the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire next summer.
Peseiro, 62, is expected to watch 60 per cent of domestic league games in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) as he has been mandated to discover homegrown talents for the national team.
The NFF was also linked with high profile coaches like Ernesto Vervalde and Phillip Cocu.
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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