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Nigerian players stranded in Atlanta, USA finally board plane for Brazil (PHOTOS)

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After days of uncertainties on when the Nigeria’s Olympic football team would depart their training camp in Atlanta, USA to Brazil for the 2016 Rio Olympics, photos have emerged of the coach Samson Siasia team boarding flight to the South American nation.

The Dream Team VI, as the team is popularly known, has been training in Atlanta since July 3 and were expected to leave the state last week but remain in Atlanta longer than planned due to unpaid airfares.

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According to multiple reports, the Nigerians had hoped to fly to Brazil on Friday but a “logistical mix-up” with the operators of their charter aircraft has left them stranded in Atlanta, Georgia.

There were reports late Wednesday that they will depart late in the night before their opener against Japan on Thursday at 9 p.m. ET in Manaus, an isolated city in the Amazon rain forest.

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Below are photos of the team departing Georgia for Brazil hours ago:

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