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The 2002
Unity Cup The Unity Cup is an international football tournament held in London. Nigeria are the defending champions after a penalty shootout win against Jamaica. The competitors are countries with large diaspora A diaspora ( ) is a population that is ...
was an international football match held on 18 May 2002 at The Valley Stadium,
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.
Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...
and
Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
were the competing sides.
Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...
won the competition, and the competitors were countries with large
diaspora A diaspora ( ) is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of birth, place of origin. The word is used in reference to people who identify with a specific geographic location, but currently resi ...
s in London.


The match

Nigeria won their first
Unity Cup The Unity Cup is an international football tournament held in London. Nigeria are the defending champions after a penalty shootout win against Jamaica. The competitors are countries with large diaspora A diaspora ( ) is a population that is ...
title by winning this match through a single goal scored by James Obiorah.


References

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2001–02 in Nigerian football 2002 in Jamaica