Later this summer, Pittsburgh Steelers tackle Chukwuma Okorafor is going to be competing for a starting job on the right side of the offensive line. But even if he wins the spot, it may not be his greatest achievement of 2019, because earlier this week, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Okorafor and his family emigrated to the US from Botswana in 2010, where he first encountered the game of American football on a serious level. Having been born in Nigeria and raised in South Africa, the sport with which he grew up was the other football, what we know as soccer.