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Laryea Kingston of Ghana during the opening Group A match of the African Cup of Nations between Ghana and Guinea at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra, Ghana, West Africa. (Photo by ben radford/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Kunle Solaja

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and the country’s most capped FIFA World Cup journalist having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Russia 2018.

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