The cement mogul made the gift on Thursday after the Nigerian team reached the finals of AFCON 2013 by defeating the Malian national team 4-1 at the semi-finals on Wednesday.
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Matters have certainly improved since 1966, when Asia and Africa between them had just one team at the finals: North Korea.
The team made the finals in 2009.
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Now used to stage home matches for the Japanese national football team and club football finals.
South Koreans have started to think the unthinkable, that their team could reach the finals, and even win.
The team won the national finals of Microsoft's Imagine Cup and will fly to St Petersburg in Russia in July for the world finals.
Despite being the only team to make regional finals each of the last three seasons, the Gators haven't been to the Final Four since winning consecutive national titles in 2006 and 2007.
All the Egyptians want to see their national team in the World Cup finals after a 24-year absence.
Every other team in the quarter-finals will have had games where they have had to work for the win.
He won 20 England caps, playing in the 1958 and 1962 World Cups, before taking the team to the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup in an eight-year spell as the national manager.
Cameroon coach Paul Le Guen still has work to do, after his side were denied a place in the semi-finals by a team not going to the World Cup - namely the eventual champions Egypt.
Until these finals, the Korean team had not won a single game despite five tournament appearances.
John Charles led a Welsh team to the 1958 World Cup finals in Sweden before Wales reached the quarter-finals of the 1976 European Championships.
The 23-year-old, a former Northern Ireland U-21 player, discovered on Monday that he had been included in Giovanni Trapattoni's team for next month's finals.
Brazil were the only non-European team to make the quarter-finals and they held off all comers, including Holland and Sweden before beating the Italians.
Florida became the first team to lose three straight regional finals.
Parreira, who resigned as Brazil coach following the team's disappointing quarter-finals exit at the hands of France at the World Cup in Germany, is expected to be in Johannesburg in the next two weeks.
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He worked with Guus Hiddink, Frank Rijkaard, Louis van Gaal and Dick Advocaat at three World Cups and three European Championships with Netherlands, Russia and Korea, as well as with the Korean national team at the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa.
Only two are allowed to progress into the semi-finals, Marleen Veldhuis, who anchored the relay team to victory on Tuesday showed every sign of breaking the world record in the semi-finals but went out more slowly this time and was well shy of Britta Steffen's mark.
Huge red banners hang from skyscrapers, urging the national team to take the country to the finals.
There have even been suggestions that the Connacht team, which reached the quarter-finals of this year's Celtic League, could be wound-up.
Following the match in Paris last November, Dunne was distraught with the way his team had been denied a World Cup finals spot.
Spain's Desafio Espanol moved to within a win of clinching the last spot in the 14-24 May semi-finals by beating United Internet Team Germany.
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Two victories would almost certainly guarantee Lyn Jones' team a place in the quarter-finals as one of the two best runners-up from the group stages.
As a result, England were paired with Group D winners Germany for a place in the quarter-finals but Capello's team were outclassed by a vastly superior side.
Ghanaians counted the tournament a success, though their team was knocked out in the semi-finals.
Italy beat champions Russia in the semi-finals, while an inexperienced USA team beat the Czech Republic.
The locals are particularly proud that their basketball team has been in the National Basketball Association Finals for the past two years.
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