Izuchukwu OkosiAtletico Madrid head coach Diego Simeone has vehemently declared his ‘no handshake’ decision with Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp in Tuesday night’s UEFA Champions League.
The Reds claimed a narrow 3-2 win over the Spanish champions at the latter’s Wanda Metropolitano and Simeone defended that when he spoke with the media afterwards.
Mohamed Salah scored a 78th-minute penalty while Antoine Griezmann was sent off in the contest for a foul he committed in the vital area.
Griezmann had scored a grace to cancel the opening 13 minutes strikes from the boots of Salah and Naby Keita.
“I don’t always greet (the other manager) after the game because I don’t like it,’ Simeone told reporters when asked about the incident at his post-match press conference.
‘It’s not healthy for either the winner or the loser. I think of it that way.
‘But now, when I see him, I’ll greet him without a problem.’
The game’s outcome saw Liverpool open up a five-point lead over the La Liga champions at the top of the group, but Simeone’s extraordinary behaviour at the full-time whistle dominated discussion after 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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