It may be more than 25 years since Celestine Babayaro was part of the Nigeria men’s football team that made history by winning a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta as a teenager, but the former Chelsea and Newcastle defender still retains his youthful exuberance when he thinks back to that moment.
“As soon as we landed it felt like 200 million people were there to celebrate,” recalls the now 44-year-old at the end of a new documentary, , which tells the story of their remarkable achievement. “There was loads of happiness in Nigeria – people were just going crazy on the streets. That tournament made a lot of difference.”
