The football national team from Nigeria is one of the most famous and successful football teams from Africa. Their biggest success is the reaching of the last 16 in the football world cup 1994 and 1998 and the victory of the Africa-Cup. In 1996 they were Olympic champions.
Football has a long tradition in Nigeria, even 1949 Nigeria has the first match against Sierra Leone. In the '70s there were more football clubs just in Lagos, the biggest city in Nigeria, than in whole East Africa.
The first official FIFA-match was 1960 against Ghana, they lost 1:4.
The colours of the team are green and white, their sponsor is adidas. Their highest victory was 8:1 against Uganda, their highest defeat was 7:0 against Ghana.
On the 1. march 2007 the German trainer Berti Vogts took the team over. His assistant was Thomas Häßler, Vogts was the 4th german trainer of the Nigerian football national team. In 2008, he was dismissed.
© Maurizio
Thank you for this short but informative entry... I hope that an African team will win the World Cup in future because I like their way of playing football. I think they play a bit disordered but also very creative, do you still know Jay Jay Okocha? :-)
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