Izuchukwu OkosiSuper Eagles striker Taiwo Awoniyi is likely to miss Nottingham Forest’s opening game of the 2023/2024 Premier League season against Arsenal.
The former Union Berlin star is recuperating from an ankle injury and only just begun training with his teammates few days ago.
Manager Steve Cooper faced the media in his first press conference of the new campaign on Thursday and spoke on the fitness levels of his players ahead of the 12.30pm fixture at the Emirates stadium on Saturday.
“Felipe, for sure. Moussa is just about returning to training, and so is Taiwo, so the game probably comes too soon for them,” Cooper who navigated through the relegation battle with his team told the media as quoted by his club’s website.
Awoniyi scored six league goals last season for his club and was particularly impressive towards the end of the season.
The former Nigeria youth international scored twice against Chelsea and one against the Gunners as they fought hard to avoid the drop, ending the season as club’s topscorer with 10 goals.
However, the duo of Emmanuel Dennis and new acquisition, Ola Aina, are poised to play their first games of the season for Forest.
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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