Almost 135 kilometres from Jos along a winding road of Pankshin stands a tenement building otherwise known as face-me-I-face-you that overlooks the Jos Township Stadium.
In Jos, the promise was clear from the beginning. After being identified at the Pepsi Academy as a 13-year-old, Michael John Obi joined the Plateau United squad. Mikel keeps track of his words. The 35-year-old is a unique personality who combines hard work with versatility and common sense. On the field, he never ran out of ideas; rather, he takes the time to interprete them with his feet with absolute confidence, making opponents turn their heads with glee.Many had predicted the end was near, and he confirmed his decision to call it quits earlier in the week after playing his final club football for Kuwait SC in a one-year deal.
After the underwhelming performance in Finland, Mikel underwent several trials before signing a schoolboy contract with Lyn Oslo in Norway. Then Chelsea appeared out of nowhere, claiming they had paid his way to Ajax Cape Town. Thus, he got caught between two of the world’s most powerful football clubs, with FIFA intervening as lawyers argued their respective cases.Before the transfer wrangle played out, there was the small matter of representing Nigeria in the Netherlands. This was after he was supposed to have been kidnapped from Lyn by agents working for Chelsea.
After the 2-1 loss in the final, the FIFA technical committee selected Mikel as the tournament’s runner-up. Messi outperformed Mikel, but the Argentinean scored both of Argentina’s goals, earning him the tournament’s top player honours. Mikel explained why he had to make a positional change at club level to Pulse Sports in June. “Obviously, I was such a creative midfield player, I was so creative. I was so gifted with the ball, I never lost the ball, and that’s why I played in the number ten role,” Mikel revealed to Pulse Sports earlier in June.
His global wandering feet led him to Trabzonspor in Turkey, where he nearly won the league title in 2020. He terminated his contract with the Turkish club in 2020 due to COVID issues before joining Kuwait SC. He moved back to England to join Stoke City, in the Championship where he cancelled his contract to move to Kuwait. On November 4, 2021, there was a mutual termination with Kuwait SC. Mikel announced his retirement from the game on September 27, 2022.
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