Izuchukwu OkosiSuper Eagles forward Ademola Lookman has been awarded the Best Player prize for his Italian side, Atalantain the 2022/2023 season.
The former Leicester City, Fulham and RB Leipzig star scored 15 goals and recorded eight assists for Atalanta in all competitions last season.
He led the team to a 7th placed finish in in Serie A to earn a place in the Europa League next season.
Lookman joined Atalanta from RB Leipzig in the summer for a reported fee of €15 million.
He made his Super Eagles debut against Ghana in March 2022.
The 25-year-old has scored one goal in seven appearances for Nigeria.
He was part of the Super Eagles squad which qualified for the 2023 Africa Nations Cup after beating Sierra Leone 3-2 in June.
Lookman had an outstanding debut campaign with Atalanta.
The 25-year-old attacker just joined the club last summer from RB Leipzig for €9.2million, and he repaid every penny spent on him.
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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