Coca-Cola Hails Team Nigeria’s Special Olympics Unified Soccer Victory

Coca-Cola Nigeria Limited has congratulated Nigeria’s Unified Soccer team for emerging the winner of the 7-Aside Unified Soccer tournament, at the just concluded Special Olympics 2015 World Summer Games in Los Angeles, USA.

The team, sponsored by Coca-Cola Nigeria, clinched the Gold medal after defeating the Russian team in an intense final match that was decided on penalty shoot outs after a 2-2 draw at full time. The match ended in a 4-3 victory in favour of the Nigerian team.
To get to the final, Team Nigeria which was the toast of the tournament beat South Africa 6-0, Burkina Faso 3-1 and the highly rated German team by 1-0.

The team’s firing power was evidently buoyed by a month long pre-games training and practice sessions in Ijebu Ode where, under the auspices of Coca-Cola, some of Nigeria’s celebrated football stars including Daniel Amokachi, Emmanuel Babayaro, Peter Rufai and Ifeanyi Udenze volunteered hours of coaching that inspired the players and sharpened their skills for the encounter with teams from other countries.

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