{"id":65446,"date":"2018-11-29T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=65446"},"modified":"2018-11-29T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:17:42","slug":"mikel-obi-speaks-on-retiring-from-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=65446","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Obi speaks on retiring from football"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mikel Obi, Super Eagles captain, has played down the rumour of him retiring from international football.<\/p>\n

The Tianjin Teda and former Chelsea midfielder declared that he was not planning to retire from the Super Eagles without making an official statement to inform the public.<\/p>\n

He made the disclosure while newsmen at the launched of his foundation in Lagos.<\/p>\n

Obi said, \u201cA lot has been said about my absence in the national team; I think if you have been on something for a very long time you would at some point need a little break and that\u2019s all I\u2019m doing, just taking a little break.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t\u2019 retired yet, I know people have said, that I think the day I will retire, I will let everyone knows, I haven\u2019t and I\u2019m also happy the team is doing really well without me which is very good so that I know that when I retire, I leave the team in good situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations Cup and we will see what happens with my fitness and my motivation to go and play and win the Nations Cup again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want the motivation to be 100 per cent, to go. If it\u2019s 60, I don\u2019t want to go. Hopefully, it will come back soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mikel Obi, Super Eagles captain, has played down the rumour of him retiring from international football. The Tianjin Teda and former Chelsea midfielder declared that he was not planning to retire from the Super Eagles without making an official statement to inform the public. He made the disclosure while newsmen at the launched of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7013,4046],"class_list":["post-65446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mikel-obi","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}