Izuchukwu Okosi
Super Eagles of Nigeria and Leicester City midfielder Wilfred Ndidi is on the mend from a serious knee injury that ruled him out of Nigeria’s 2022 FIFA World Cup playoffs against Ghana in March and a couple of games for Leicester City towards the end of the 2021/2022 season.
Ndidi copped the knee injury in March during Leicester City’s Europa Conference League round of 16 tie against Rennes and had to undergo surgery.
“I have been working my way back,” Ndidi told LCFC.
“I went away for two weeks and came back early. The body has already adapted to it. It’s good. For me, I’m in a much better place.
“It’s good to be back with the lads and seeing all the lads. We’re still waiting for some of the lads but it will be good when everyone comes back and we can look forward to what we want to achieve.”
“The training is just to get the body toned up. As soon as the body gets ready for it, the games coming up are just another way of getting more fitness and getting us ready for more games coming.
“I just feel training is getting the body ready for the games ahead. The first game is to get game-time and gain more fitness.”
They begin their pre season friendlies with a match against English National League side Notts County on the 9th of July.
They also face Belgian side OH Leuven, Championship sides Hull City, Preston North End, and Derby County.
Leicester City would then conclude with a game against Sevilla on the 31st of July.
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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