{"id":42843,"date":"2021-05-12T15:54:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=42843"},"modified":"2021-05-12T15:51:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:51:20","slug":"mikel-obi-told-to-join-npfl-club-like-ahmed-musa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/mikel-obi-told-to-join-npfl-club-like-ahmed-musa","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Obi told to join NPFL club like Ahmed Musa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Veteran Nigerian coach, Henry Makinwa, has advised John Obi Mikel to consider joining a club in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).<\/p>\n<p>According to him, it would be a \u201cmassive win\u201d for the Nigerian topflight.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel signed for Championship side Stoke City on a short-term deal after leaving Turkish Super Lig outfit Trabzonspor last year.<\/p>\n<p>However, his contract with the Potters expires at the end of the 2020\/2021 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Makinwa has now encouraged the former Super Eagles captain to borrow a leaf from Ahmed Musa, who is currently with former NPFL champions, Kano Pillars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat would be highly welcomed if he can consider that option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI once wrote about this many years back but that could not stand then. If he does that, we will welcome him back home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be a massive win for the NPFL and the local fans,\u201d Makinwa told Goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Veteran Nigerian coach, Henry Makinwa, has advised John Obi Mikel to consider joining a club in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). According to him, it would be a \u201cmassive win\u201d for the Nigerian topflight. Mikel signed for Championship side Stoke City on a short-term deal after leaving Turkish Super Lig outfit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[1570,2140,2035,3549,254,579],"class_list":["post-42843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-ahmed-musa","tag-mikel-obi","tag-nigeria","tag-npfl"],"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>Mikel Obi told to join NPFL club like Ahmed Musa - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Veteran Nigerian coach, Henry Makinwa, has advised John Obi Mikel to consider joining a club in the Nigeria Professional ...\" \/>\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\/sport\/mikel-obi-told-to-join-npfl-club-like-ahmed-musa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mikel Obi told to join NPFL club like Ahmed Musa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Veteran Nigerian coach, Henry Makinwa, has advised John Obi Mikel to consider joining a club in the Nigeria Professional ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/mikel-obi-told-to-join-npfl-club-like-ahmed-musa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-12T15:54:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-609bf95131218.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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\/sport\/mikel-obi-told-to-join-npfl-club-like-ahmed-musa#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/mikel-obi-told-to-join-npfl-club-like-ahmed-musa\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mikel Obi told to join NPFL club like Ahmed Musa\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-12T15:54:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/mikel-obi-told-to-join-npfl-club-like-ahmed-musa\"},\"wordCount\":157,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/mikel-obi-told-to-join-npfl-club-like-ahmed-musa#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-609bf95131218.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Ahmed Musa\",\"Mikel Obi\",\"Nigeria\",\"NPFL\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/mikel-obi-told-to-join-npfl-club-like-ahmed-musa#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/mikel-obi-told-to-join-npfl-club-like-ahmed-musa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/mikel-obi-told-to-join-npfl-club-like-ahmed-musa\",\"name\":\"Mikel Obi told to join NPFL club like Ahmed Musa - 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