{"id":23288,"date":"2020-03-30T16:40:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T16:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23288"},"modified":"2020-03-30T16:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T16:40:30","slug":"amokachi-mikel-is-the-greatest-nigerian-footballer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amokachi-mikel-is-the-greatest-nigerian-footballer","title":{"rendered":"Amokachi: Mikel Is The Greatest Nigerian Footballer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Akokachi has named John Mikel Obi as the greatest Nigerian player, reports Completesports.com.<\/p>\n<p>Amokachi, who won the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations with Nigeria considers Mikel to be the country\u2019s standout player based on his achievements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dMikel is the greatest player,\u2019\u2019 Amokachi said on Brila FM\u2019s Show \u201cThe Bull\u2019s Pit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018He has won everything that a player can hope to; the Champions League, Europa, AFCON in 2013 and he also captained the national team.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018As a footballer, your laurels count and that will surely count for Mikel because nobody has won that much in Nigerian football.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Mikel, who spent 11 years at Chelsea won two Premier League, three FA Cup and one League Cup titles with the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old also won the UEFA Champions League and the Europa League during his time at the Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>On the international scene, Mikel won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations title with the Super Eagles and was part of Nigeria\u2019s U-23 side that won bronze medal in the football event of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>He quit international football in 2019 AFCON finals in Egypt where the Super Eagles came third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Akokachi has named John Mikel Obi as the greatest Nigerian player, reports Completesports.com. Amokachi, who won the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations with Nigeria considers Mikel to be the country\u2019s standout player based on his achievements. \u201dMikel is the greatest player,\u2019\u2019 Amokachi said on Brila FM\u2019s Show \u201cThe Bull\u2019s Pit\u201d. \u2018\u2018He has won everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":23289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115],"class_list":["post-23288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-nigeria","tag-nigerian-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amokachi: Mikel Is The Greatest Nigerian Footballer - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Daniel Akokachi has named John Mikel Obi as the greatest Nigerian player, reports Completesports.com.Amokachi, who won the 1994 Africa Cup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amokachi-mikel-is-the-greatest-nigerian-footballer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amokachi: Mikel Is The Greatest Nigerian Footballer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Daniel Akokachi has named John Mikel Obi as the greatest Nigerian player, reports Completesports.com.Amokachi, who won the 1994 Africa Cup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amokachi-mikel-is-the-greatest-nigerian-footballer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-30T16:40:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200330_121813.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"875\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"583\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amokachi-mikel-is-the-greatest-nigerian-footballer#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amokachi-mikel-is-the-greatest-nigerian-footballer\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Amokachi: Mikel Is The Greatest Nigerian Footballer\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-30T16:40:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amokachi-mikel-is-the-greatest-nigerian-footballer\"},\"wordCount\":202,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amokachi-mikel-is-the-greatest-nigerian-footballer#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200330_121813.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Football in Nigeria\",\"Nigerian sports\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amokachi-mikel-is-the-greatest-nigerian-footballer#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amokachi-mikel-is-the-greatest-nigerian-footballer\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/amokachi-mikel-is-the-greatest-nigerian-footballer\",\"name\":\"Amokachi: Mikel Is The Greatest Nigerian Footballer - 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