Pele: Football legend’s impact during Nigeria civil war
Following the death of football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento - Pele, Afrosport reminisces on his playing career and a memorable event that took place in Nigeria when an armistice was called in the middle of the civil war in October 1969. A brutal civil war started in Nigeria in 1967 between the Nigerian Government and the Republic of Biafra (South-Eastern Nigeria) and the fight was...