(CNN)In Nigeria, football is more than just a sport. Bars overfill with excited fans at match time, and conversations about goals, penalties and scores continue online long after the referee has blown the final whistle.

This vibrant social media exchange is exactly what inspired a group of friends to set up an alternative football league; one filled entirely with players recruited from Twitter.

Called the Twitter Premier League (TPL) it started when Efeoghene Ori-Jesu, an oil and gas industry professional working in Port Harcourt, decided to ask opinionated online football commentators to prove their points on the pitch.

"One day I half-jokingly challenged people on Twitter and said that since they know so much about football why don't they just put it on the field, show their skills," Ori-Jesu says. "Let's play football and let's see how good you are," he adds...see more on http://www.edition.cnn.com/2015/11/20/football/twitter-premier-league-nigeria/.

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Source: http://www.edition.cnn.com/2015/11/20/football/twitter-premier-league-nigeria/