Antelopes do not fly.

That’s why I often wondered why Rangers International Football Club of Enugu are nicknamed ‘the Flying Antelopes’. 

I know the genesis of the name ‘Rangers’. It is a deadly and destructive cannon used by Biafran soldiers during the bloody Nigerian Civil War. 

In ‘fighting’ their way back to the mainstream life in Nigeria, and in shedding the toga of a defeated people after the Civil War, some Igbo leaders  set up the football club to fast track their re-integration and chose the name ‘Rangers’ to reflect strength, power and an indomitable fighting and winning spirit. 

One year after the end of the war, the team played its way to the finals of the most prestigious club competition in Nigeria at the time – the FA Cup!

They were only halted in their march to the top only by the heroics of Amusa Adisa, the goalkeeper

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