It was sweet victory yesterday in South Africa as the African Cup of Nations 2013 drew to a close! Guinness, the official sponsor of the Super Eagles can rightly say it successfully inspired the Eagles to victory in South Africa as millions of Nigerian fans participated in sending goodwill messages to the victorious team. Recall that Guinness launched the ‘Fly With The Eagles’ campaign, to rally the support of 160 million Nigerian fans for the team ahead of the tournament.
The campaign which flagged off at Eko Hotels and Suites in November 2012, had in attendance notable personalities in Nigerian sports and sports administration in attendance from ex-internationals such as JayJay Okocha, Kanu Nwakwo, Segun Odegbami, NFF officials, Lagos State Sport’s commissioner, Football Supporters club of Nigeria and the assistant coach of the Super Eagles, Daniel Amokachi. The campaign which constituted a series of amazing fan engagement platforms; The Fly with the Eagles Consumer Promotion which had lucky fans win a variety of exciting prizes including a 200 man-all expense paid trip to South Africa to watch the Eagles play live and cheer them to victory.
