Argentina beat Nigeria to retain Olympic football title

Argentina claimed back-to-back Olympic football titles with the winning goal engineered by superstar Lionel Messi in a 1-0 win over former champions Nigeria in the gold medal match at the Beijing Games on Saturday at the Bird’s Nest stadium. The newly build stadium with near capacity crowd of 89,000 saw Benfica’s Di Maria latch onto a defence-splitting pass from Barcelona star Lionel Messi in the 58th minute before lobbing the ball over advancing Nigerian goalkeeper goalkeeper Ambrose Vanzekin.

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