In one year, retired Super Eagles midfielder Mikel John Obi has openly stated on multiple occasions that he paid 250,000 to fly Nigeria's team from London to Rio for the 2016 Olympics,
Nigeria won just one medal at the 2016 Olympics - the bronze by the football team. However, the team was very close to missing the entire tournament.
In one of the weirdest stories of that Olympics, Nigeria's football team was camped in Atlanta, USA, for a few weeks.
But they could not leave in time due to difficulties in getting a flight. According to BBC , they were were having financial difficulties at the time.
They eventually got to camp just hours before their opening game of the competition against Japan, and they managed to eke out a 5-4 win.
