Former Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, has claimed that the team that won gold at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, USA, is better than the Dream Team VI that finished third at the 2016 edition in Rio, Brazil.
Oliseh was part of the all-conquering team, that included players like Austin ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha, Emmanuel Amuneke and Daniel Amokachi, who saw off the likes of Brazil and Argentina to win the men’s football event 20 years ago.
Most of them had played at the 1994 World Cup in the USA, but Samson Siasia’s team only had captain Mikel John Obi, as the only man with World Cup experience.
Asked if the class of 2016 at Rio can be compared to the 1996 team, Oliseh told fifa.com: “No, I don’t think so. Every country talks about its own golden generation, and Nigeria is no different. You can’t have several golden generations, or at least not in a short space of time.”
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