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Nigeria on Wednesday appointed -Sunday Oliseh as coach on a three-year contract.


Oliseh said it was an honor to lead the Super Eagles Wholesale Georgia Bulldogs Hats , but warned that he alone was not capable of turning around the country's footballing fortunes.


""It a great honour to be coach of this nation,"" he said at a media presentation in Abuja on Wednesday.


""First of all, I am not coming as a Messiah. I am not coming as a man who can single-handedly turn Nigeria into Germany.


""I am coming in to do my best and give, if possible, 150 percent all the time.


""The state we are now in Nigeria I think we are all not happy with. Gone are the days we had individual players who could single-handedly win a match for you.


""But we have the potential and that is our belief and the players must know that it's an honor to be invited to the -national team.""


Amaju Pinnick Wholesale Kansas Jayhawks Hats , president of the -Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), praised Oliseh.


""Today is another historic day in the history of Nigeria football. Today we have been able to present the Pep Guardiola [Bayern Munich coach] of Africa,"" Pinnick remarked.


""I can assure you that we are going to have one of the best coaches Nigeria ever had.""


Former Nigeria international skipper Oliseh, 40, has replaced Stephen Keshi Wholesale Lsu Tigers Hats , who was sacked recently for a breach of trust.


Oliseh played for several top European clubs including Juventus, Borussia Dortmund and Ajax Amsterdam as well as featuring at two World Cups with -Nigeria.


He also won Olympic gold in 1996 as well as the Africa Cup of Nations in 1994.


Oliseh holds a UEFA pro coaching -license and is a member of the FIFA technical study group.


The immediate tasks for the new Nigeria will be a 2017 Africa Cup of -Nations qualifier away in Tanzania in early September as well as a friendly some days later.


""There is no time to waste. The team has important matches to play in the next few weeks and it is imperative that Oliseh starts work immediately,"" NFF Secretary-General Mohammed Sanusi said.

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By Wang Qiang


CHICAGO, 20 (Xinhua) -- Forty-five years ago, a group of world ping-pong champions from China paid a return visit to America Wholesale Miami Hurricanes Hats , following the U.S. team's historic visit to China in 1971.


Normalization of relations between the two rival nations during the cold war was gradually realized thanks to ping-pong, an unlikely diplomatic tool.


In the past five days, athletes who personally witnessed the Ping-pong diplomacy decades ago, reunited in the U.S. to celebrated the 45 anniversary of Chinese team's first visit to America in 1972.


"I'm very excited to have a chance to be here again and meet my old friends," said 67-year-old ping-pong veteran Liang Geliang.


He and Zheng Huaiying Wholesale Michigan Wolverines Hats , former woman world champion, played an exhibition match on Monday night in the University of Michigan with Dell and Connie Sweeris, who visited China several times since their ice-breaking tour in 1971.


The couple's last visit to China was in 2011, when they were invited to take part in the celebration of the 40th anniversary of ping-pong diplomacy.


Recalling her crossing a bridge from Hong Kong and set foot in what Washington used to call "Communist China", Connie told Xinhua that she was anxious and even a little scared because she knew very little about China and its people before.


Moreover Wholesale North Carolina Tar Heels Hats , Americans were not allowed by their administrations to visit China since 1949.


But when the American team finished their tour, Connie found "the Chinese players were very friendly and treated us with respect and kindness". They made friends with each other.


During their meeting this time in Michigan University, Connie Sweeris chatted warmly with her old friend Zheng Huaiying. The two showed each other the digital pictures of their children and grandchildren they keep in their cell phones.


Both the Chinese and U.S. athletes were still very familiar with the old Chinese sports slogan "friendship first, competition second" as they staged their ping-pong skills in front of a large cheering crowd in the University of Michigan.


Along with the ping-pong hall of famers, some young Chinese champions also attended the events in New York Wholesale Notre Dame Fighting Irish Hats , Chicago of Illinois and Michigan from September 15 to 19.


Wang Hao, Ding Ning, Yan Sen and Qiao Hong, all younger world ping-pong champions, were deeply touched when they heard the old generation of the Chinese and U.S. players talking about what they experienced.


"It is really good to learn what happened some 45 years ago and how significantly the old generation of ping-pong players did for the Sino-American relationship." Wang Hao said.


The Chinese delegation also visited the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library on the university's Ann Arbor campus Wholesale Ohio State Buckeyes Hats , where they had a chance to read the archives about the meeting between China's late Chairman Mao Zedong and then U.S. President Gerald Ford.


The official interpreter for the high-level Sino-American talks, Tang Wensheng, who was former vice-chairperson of the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation that sponsored the ping-pong players' current visit, explained to them the delicacy of relations between China, the former Soviet Union and the U.S. during the Cold War.


In the Ford Presidential Library Wholesale Oklahoma Sooners Hats , the dis-classified minutes from the White House brought her back to the 1970s.


Madame Tang was personally involved in the ping-pong diplomacy from 1971. She knows what's behind the doors and how the leaders pushed the normalization of the relations between the two countries, which significantly changed the world.


Jan Berris, now the vice-president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, was one of the those who escorted the first Chinese ping-pong delegation 45 years ago.


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