Izuchukwu Okosi
Mohamed Salah on Sunday reached another landmark in his illustrious Premier League career as he became the highest scoring African footballer in the Premier League with 107 goals after Liverpool thumped Manchester United 5-0 at Old Trafford.
The humiliation was United’s heaviest defeat in recent memory at home or away with the calls for the sack of manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer likely to reach dizzying heights.
It was the 10th consecutive league game for the Egyptian superstar Salah and a 15th goal in 12 matches this season.
Salah assisted Naby Kieta for the first goal of the match and was involved in the buildup to the second goal scored by Diogo Jota.
Salah then scored twice before the halftime break and completed his hattrick five minutes into the second half.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored what he thought was a consolation goal but the Video Assistant Referee ruled out his effort albeit a fantastic one.
United’s evening was further dealt a blow with the red card handed to Paul Pogba after a VAR review for a foul in the second half.
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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