From cleaners unwilling to wash their kit for a misplaced fear of AIDS to incredible internal strife, Nigeria’s win at the 1996 Olympics was incredible

From cleaners unwilling to wash their kit for a misplaced fear of AIDS to incredible internal strife, Nigeria’s win at the 1996 Olympics was incredible
This feature is part of Virtuoso Like many footballing institutions, Arsenal are not without their fair share of adulated alumni; an array of impenetrable defenders, a collection of tantalisingly talented midfield maestros…
Illustration by Federico Manasse If you didn’t know who he was, you would perhaps take one look at Nwankwo Kanu and think he was anything but a footballer. His appendicular skeleton looks…