Chelsea
FC on Thursday, June 30 posted a video on its website to celebrate Super Eagles
midfielder, John Mike Obi’s ten years at the club.
Mikel
Obi shone to limelight in 2005 when he represented Nigeria U-20 team at the
2015 World Youth Championship in Holland where he won the Silver Ball for the
second-best player and Nigeria finished second.
Mikel joined Chelsea in the summer of 2006 from Lyn Oslo of
Norway after a controversial transfer saga with Manchester United.
In
September 2006, he made his Chelsea debut in a Champions League fixture against Levski Sofia
Five things You should
know
1) Mikel’s full name is John Michael Nchekwube
Obinna. Nigeria Football Federation mistakenly submitted "Michael" as
"Mikel" for the 2013 U-17 tournament in Finland. He decided to keep the new
name, saying that it had a "special ring to it."
2)
On 12 August 2011, Mikel's father, Michael Obi,
was the victim of a suspected kidnapping in Nigeria and was found alive
on 22 August 2011, in the Nigerian city of Kano
3)
Mikel has made a total of 372 appearances and
with only six goals for Chelsea (atleast better than Makélélé on an
average as a holding midfielder); he has won Chelsea’s best Young player (2007
& 2008) winning a total of 11 major trophies so far in Blues colour.
4)
For Nigeria national team, Mikel has made a
total of 75 goals scoring only four goals and winning the African Nations Cup
in 2013.
5)
Mikel went ahead to engage her Russian
girlfriend Olga Diyachenko (with whom they have beautiful twins together) despite
unverified claims that he has a Nigerian girlfriend who was heavily pregnant
for him.
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