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Nigeria Olympic soccer team to play in DeKalb

The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners and representatives for United Soccer Africa recognized the Nigeria men’s Olympic soccer team on Tuesday. The team is playing a match Saturday at Silverbacks Park. From left: Commissioner Larry Johnson, Commissioner Nancy Jester, Bunny Jinadu of United Soccer Africa, Assistant Coach Fatal Amoo, Goal Keeper Coach David Ngodigha, Commissioner Kathie Gannon, Commissioner Mereda Davis Johnson and Commissioner Sharon Barnes Sutton. MARK NIESSE/ MARK.NIESSE@AJC.COM
The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners and representatives for United Soccer Africa recognized the Nigeria men’s Olympic soccer team on Tuesday. The team is playing a match Saturday at Silverbacks Park. From left: Commissioner Larry Johnson, Commissioner Nancy Jester, Bunny Jinadu of United Soccer Africa, Assistant Coach Fatal Amoo, Goal Keeper Coach David Ngodigha, Commissioner Kathie Gannon, Commissioner Mereda Davis Johnson and Commissioner Sharon Barnes Sutton. MARK NIESSE/ MARK.NIESSE@AJC.COM
By Mark Niesse
July 12, 2016

The Nigeria men’s soccer team is returning to the Atlanta area to play an exhibition Saturday in preparation for the Olympics in Brazil next month.

The Nigeria U23 Olympic team will play Charleston Battery at Silverbacks Park in DeKalb County.

The Nigeria soccer team won the gold medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Saturday's match begins at 8 p.m. at 3200 Atlanta Silverbacks Way near the intersection of I-285 and I-85. Tickets and information are available at unitedsoccerafrica.com.

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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.

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