Nigeria’s Super Eagles arrived back
home, after winning the country’s first Africa Cup of Nations
trophy in nearly two decades and were welcomed by adoring crowds ahead of
meeting the president.
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They were also due to attend a
reception on Tuesday, to be hosted by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Along the road from the airport
toward the city, school children dressed in their uniforms waited for the team
convoy and waved Nigerian flags.
The Nations Cup victory in South
Africa has thrilled Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation but where the team has
in recent years failed to play up to its potential.
A 1-0 win over Burkina Faso, thanks
to a winner from Sunday Mba, gave the football mad nation its first African
championship since 1994.
Celebrations however were initially
tainted by the announcement that coach Stephen Keshi was resigning before the
Nigerian Football Federation released a statement said to be signed by Keshi,
that he was changing his mind after the sports minister intervened.
Keshi is one of only two men to win
the African Cup of Nations as both a player and a coach.
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