Nigeria wins its first medal as under 23 team beats Honduras 3-2 to win the Bronze medal. Nigeria, the 1996 Olympic football champions, are now the first African country to complete an Olympic medal sweep having won a sliver medal in Beijing in 2008.
The Dream Team VI held off their opponents' late rally to win the country's first medal of the Rio games. Victory gave Nigeria - beaten by Germany in the semi-finals - their place in history, by winning all three men's football Olympic medals. At Atlanta in 1996, they became the first African team to win the gold medal. They also finished runners-up at the 2008 Beijing Olympics to take silver, where current under-23 coach Samson Siasia also coached the 'Dream Team' in China.
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