How Nigeria’s stunning Dream Team blew away Ronaldo & Crespo

Nigeria’s vaunted group of 1996 had not received the memo. Never had an African team dared to attain success at the men’s Olympic football tournament. Never had the West African nation thought it was within the realms of possibility.

Up until then, only Ghana had even claimed a medal at the Games, winning bronze four years earlier in Barcelona.

Nigeria had never made it past the Group Stage of the quadrennial competition. In 1996, they recorded history and then some.

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