Eagles largest jersey Makes Guinness World Record

Nigeria has again recorded another victory as Guinness Nigeria Plc was recently awarded the certificate for the world’s largest football jersey.

The largest football jersey exploit, was part of Guinness’ Fly with the Eagles campaign in support of reigning African champions- the Super Eagles as they took on the rest of the continent at the just concluded AFCON 2013 tournament in South Africa.

The jersey measured an amazing record size of 241ft 3in in width and  294ft 2in in length to set a new  world record as the largest football jersey in history, beating the last record held at a size of  234ft 1 in by 259ft 8in. created and displayed in Sukru, San Istanbul Turkey in 2009.

The largest jersey was unveiled at the Teslim Balogun Stadium Surulere Lagos and the Liberation Stadium, Port Harcourt in a bid to galvanize the support of millions of fans for the Super Eagles in their quest for victory at the city of Madiba.

According to the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Guinness Nigeria Plc, Mr. Seni Adetu, it is a case for double joy for the nation.

“We are elated as a company to have greatly contributed to these successes, putting Nigeria on the world map once again with this feat. Initially, there were doubts as to whether we had broken the world record when we started out.

However, today, I am proud to present to you the Guinness World Record Certificate for the largest football shirt in the world proving that we actually did break the world record” Adetu announced.

 

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