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For today’s Geo Quiz, we were looking for the country where the national soccer team is known as The Super Eagles. The answer is Nigeria. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s Alex Capstick in Cape Town, South Africa, about the controversy surrounding Nigeria’s president and his decision to ban the national team from competing, following a bad performance at the World Cup.

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