Izuchukwu OkosiNigeria’s Super Falconets will play against France, Canada and Korea Republic in Group C of the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup after Thursday evening’s draws reports Prime Business Africa.
The tournament holds between August 10th and August 28th 2022 and the Falconets defeated Senegal 4-1 at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City last month and qualified for the World Cup 7-2 on aggregate.
Africa’s second representative, Ghana will play defending champions, Japan, Netherlands and USA in Group D.
Only four countries, namely Germany, Brazil, USA and Nigeria have played in all editions of the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup since the competition started as U19 championship in Canada 20 years ago.
Germany have won the competition three times (2004, 2010 and 2014); USA have also won it on three occasions (2002, 2008 and 2012), while Nigeria have played at the final twice, losing to Germany in 2010 and 2014.
Host country Costa Rica will kick-off the tournament with the opening game on August 10 against Australia.
FULL DRAW:
GROUP A:
Costa Rica, Australia, Spain, Brazil.
GROUP B:
Germany, Colombia, New Zealand, Mexico.
GROUP C:
Nigeria, France, Canada, Korea Republic
GROUP D:
Japan, Netherlands, Ghana, USA.
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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