{"id":23443,"date":"2020-04-03T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23443"},"modified":"2020-04-03T17:13:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:13:19","slug":"obi-mikel-on-his-way-to-botafogo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obi-mikel-on-his-way-to-botafogo","title":{"rendered":"Obi Mikel On His Way to Botafogo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Luanda \u2014 With the championship suspended, Botafogo continues to seek to reinforce the squad, whereas the Carioca emblem reaching an agreement with the Nigerian John Obi Mikel.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian midfielder has disengaged from Trabzonspor club and is free to sign for any club.<\/p>\n<p>A source from the Brazilian sports newspaper &#8220;Lance&#8221; says that officialization is being delayed by the pandemic that is plaguing the world (COVID -19), since the player cannot travel to Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p>Trained at Plateau United (Nigeria), Obi Mikel spent most of his career in European football, where he represented Lyn (Norway), Chelsea (England), Middlesbrough (England) and Trabzonspor (Turkey).<\/p>\n<p>In the middle he has a season and a half in China, playing for Tianjin Teda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Luanda \u2014 With the championship suspended, Botafogo continues to seek to reinforce the squad, whereas the Carioca emblem reaching an agreement with the Nigerian John Obi Mikel. The Nigerian midfielder has disengaged from Trabzonspor club and is free to sign for any club. A source from the Brazilian sports newspaper &#8220;Lance&#8221; says that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115],"class_list":["post-23443","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>Obi Mikel On His Way to Botafogo - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Luanda \u2014 With the championship suspended, Botafogo continues to seek to reinforce the squad, whereas the Carioca\" \/>\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\/obi-mikel-on-his-way-to-botafogo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obi Mikel On His Way to Botafogo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Luanda \u2014 With the championship suspended, Botafogo continues to seek to reinforce the squad, whereas the Carioca\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obi-mikel-on-his-way-to-botafogo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-03T17:13:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/John-Obi-Mikel-161112-Celebrating-BPP-300.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\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\/obi-mikel-on-his-way-to-botafogo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obi-mikel-on-his-way-to-botafogo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Obi Mikel On His Way to Botafogo\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-03T17:13:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obi-mikel-on-his-way-to-botafogo\"},\"wordCount\":127,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obi-mikel-on-his-way-to-botafogo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/01\/John-Obi-Mikel-161112-Celebrating-BPP-300.jpg\",\"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\/obi-mikel-on-his-way-to-botafogo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obi-mikel-on-his-way-to-botafogo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/obi-mikel-on-his-way-to-botafogo\",\"name\":\"Obi Mikel On His Way to Botafogo - 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