Izuchukwu OkosiThe Super Eagles are scheduled to play a friendly game on Monday evening against Guinea’s Syli Nationale in Abu Dhabi as they prepare for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote D’Ivoire.
The three-time African champions had hoped to play Burkina Faso and Cape Verde in tuneup games ahead of the AFCON but the matches have suffered late cancellations.
The team’s head coach Jose Peseiro has had to come up with a slightly different team from the one he had named with Leicester City midfielder Wilfred Ndidi injured and in his stead comes Alhasan Yusuf.
Meanwhile, Kelechi Iheanacho, whose participation at the tournament was also in question will join the team in Lagos before they jet off to Abidjan.
The former Manchester City forward has been working on his fitness in an unnamed location in Lagos and feelers from the camp indicate that he will recover from the setback to make the trip.
Terem Moffi had been penciled down as the likely replacement for the ‘senior man’ as Iheanacho is affectionately called among his teammates.
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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