Izuchukwu Okosi
By Izuchukwu Okosi
Super Falcons captain Asisat Oshoala scored a brace for her Spanish La Liga female side, Barcelona Femeni Sunday evening in their 8-1 defeat of Real Sociedad in the Spanish Women’s Primera Division.
Nigeria’s Oshoala who is Africa Women’s Footballer of The Year grabbed her goals in the 23rd and 38th minutes of the match.
The double delight takes Oshoala’s goal tally to 10 this season with four assists to boot.
Barcelona Femeni top the table with 24 points after eight round of matches with Sociedad second in the table with 18 points, six point adrift of Barcelona.
Next Sunday, Oshoala’s team will face Eibar Ladies.
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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