Izuchukwu Okosi
By Izuchukwu Okosi
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Nigeria players Kelechi Iheanacho, Samuel Chukwueze, William Troost Ekong, Taiwo Awoniyi and Frank Onyeka were on the losing sides Saturday for their respective European clubs.
Kelechi Iheanacho was a starter in Leicester City’s 2-0 defeat to a resurgent Arsenal side at the King Power Stadium. However teammate Wilfred Ndidi was only on the substitute bench following his comeback from injury.
Samuel Chukwueze who is yet to start a game for Villarreal came off the substitute bench in place of Dani Parejo in the Yellow Submarine’s 2-0 away defeat to Valencia at the Estadio de Mestalla on Saturday night.
Chukwueze, 22-year-old, has made four league appearances since his return from the injury setback. Hugo Guillamon and Carlos Soler were on target for Valencia in the game.
Super Eagles vice captain William Troost-Ekong was in action for Watford on Saturday in their 1-0 defeat to Southampton no thanks to a Che Adams’ goal. Emmanuel Dennis did not feature due to suspension.
At Turf Moor, defensive midfielder Frank Onyeka played for 58 minutes in Brentford 3-1 defeat to Burnley.
However it was good news for Ola Aina who was on the winning side in Torino’s emphatic 3-0 win over Sampdoria.
Aina was making his 10th Serie A game of the season in the game.
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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