Football is played everywhere in the world. East Africa, including Nigeria, is no exception. Introduced to the residents of the country in the early 1900s, the game quickly became actively played, taking its place as the national sport by the middle of the century. The Nigerian national football team is among the strongest in Africa. It was even ranked the fifth best in the world in 1994 by FIFA, the highest any African one ever was until 2022, when the Moroccan national team reached