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Because Nigeria is no longer a big country in football, you will normally expect that the Nigerian team will qualify for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/07\/01\/american-1968-olympic-champion-lee-evans-buried-in-nigeria-in-line-with-his-wishes\/\">Olympic<\/a> game for Tokyo this year, but they have not done it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have done a great achievement with Nigeria in 1996, beating the South Americans \u2013 Brazil and Argentina. Now they cannot follow up on the work that we have finished. That\u2019s why it is not good for Nigeria not to have qualified for football in the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo 2022 makes it the third consecutive Olympics that the Nigerian teams will be missing after participating in Beijing 2008, where the men finished with silver medals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former assistant technical adviser of the Super Eagles, Bonfrere Jo has stated that Nigeria is no longer among the top footballing countries in the world. The 75-year-old Dutch football coach further stated that Nigeria\u2019s failure to qualify for the football events of the Tokyo Olympics emphasised the deterioration. 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