After bagging Nigeria’s only medal-a bronze at the just concluded 31st Olympiad in Rio, Brazil, Nigeria’s U-23 team landed in Lagos on Monday evening.
The Nigerian team defeated Honduras 3-2 to win the country’s only medal at the Summer Olympics football event. Most of the players did not return with the team as they joined-up with their respective clubs in Europe.
However players like Stanley Amuzie, Saliu Popoola, striker Junior Ajayi, goalkeeper Emmanuel Daniel and Coach Samson Siasia who is planning to embark on vacation to see his family in the United States touched down at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Monday night.
With the bronze medal feat in Rio, Nigeria has done what many regard as a ‘clean medal sweep’ in Olympic football , after winning gold 20 years-ago in Atlanta, USA, silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in China, and Bronze at the just conclude Rio 2016 in 2016.
Welcome back boys. Go team Nigeria go!!!
