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The Nigeria national football team, nicknamed Super Eagles or previously Green Eagles, is the national team representing Nigeria and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). During April 1994, Super Eagles ranked 5th in the FIFA World Rankings, the highest ranking achieved by an African football team. They are the current Africa Cup of Nations champions. They have won the Africa Cup of Nations a total of 3 times, and have reached the FIFA World Cup round of 16 twice. They have qualified for five of the last six World Cups, with their first appearance coming in the United States in 1994.

How they qualified
<\/STRONG>Drawn in Group F with Malawi, Kenya and Namibia, the Nigerians were always massive favourites to reach the final play-off round of qualifying, and they did not lose any matches in the group stage. They did draw three times, once against each opponent, with the most worrying result a 1-1 at home to Kenya when only a second half injury time goal by Nnamdi Oduamadi won the point. Once in the two-legged play-off, the Eagles drew the lowest-ranked team in Ethiopia and despite the improvement of the east Africans, Nigeria were seldom threatened in winning away 2-1 and at home 2-0.<\/P>","42B1B76A697DFC47":"26.93","5E8F53D0A504BF86":"Nigeria","8524B53828524224755A552E6AAA1E77":"Kano Pillars","D99F4C61777FBED8":"","7B11A9E5D141DF5785F9EF965C7D588D":"Kano Pillars,Enugu Rangers International","50DCDC085A8BF7E4518E56CD69FC7EB2":"60,491","92DC52DD0D4041625C68AA7C024C7F67":"Nigeria","89F75C88F810F7B54F1BC067C7848CF5":"Moshood Abiola National Stadium","76E4AF6D9D682B9E33C3CEBB0A099E01":"","C6E00DEB351621C4":"204","B52BFE7EA0432304":"nigeria_fa@yahoo.com","0357E9507AE48270":"","4268BF6963F167300062241A864D4973":"Plot 2033, Olusegun Obasanjo Way, Zone 7, Wuse Abuja P.O. Box 5101 Garki ABUJA","3D9B31C67DFDD0FC8C73053EF2ADBD66":"

African Nations Cup
<\/STRONG>Winners (3): 1980, 1994, 2013
Runners-up(4): 1984, 1988, 1990, 2000

Confederations Cup
<\/STRONG>Fourth place (1): 1995

Afro-Asian Cup of Nations
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1995

All-Africa Games
<\/STRONG>Gold Medal: 1973
Silver Medal: 1978

CSSA Nations Cup
<\/STRONG>Third-place: 1987

WASF Championship
<\/STRONG>Runners-up: 1960
Third-place: 1963

CEDEAO Cup
<\/STRONG>Winners: 1977, 1990
Runners-up: 1983
Fourth-place: 1991<\/P>","D818D0DBB58D9A673E378E57E02D444F9E96A907729BB512":"1945","00E1A43DD023DEC2DFC0A799EF9025A4":"","0C852134AA40B2DD":"1","0284C3E6252CDEEA":"Salisu Yusuf","729294714CECF588":"

First international
<\/STRONG>Sierra Leone 0–2 Nigeria (Freetown, Sierra Leone; 10 August 1949)

Biggest win
<\/STRONG>Nigeria 10–1 Dahomey (Lagos, Nigeria; 28 November 1959)

Biggest defeat
<\/STRONG>Gold Coast 7–0 Nigeria (Accra, Gold Coast; 1 June 1955)

Most caps
<\/STRONG>Joseph Yobo (95)

Top scorer
<\/STRONG>Rashidi Yekini (37)<\/P>","686A4807662B110DEF267ED94EA5AF8C":"Nigeria","e_index":1};