Meet Mikel Obi The Richest Nigerian Footballer See How He Spends His Money

One of the Nigerian best player of all time, mikel obi was born and raised in jos, plateau state. He began his football career at the age of 12, when he was been picked as a talented footballer from over 3, 000 young talents to play to play in a Pepsi football academy, a team that was known for travelling across


Nigeria, scouting young footballers with the potential to play for top flight club plateau United, a club that previously developed stars like; Celestine babayaro, Victor obinna, and Chris obodo among others that went on to success in european leagues.


During the preparation of the 2003 FIFA under- 17 world championships, the Nigeria football association (NFA) mistakely submitted " Micheal" as " Mikel" for the reasontournament in Finland, but he decided to keep the new name, saying that it had a " special ring to it" also during the 2005 summer, Mikel obi also played for Nigeria at the FIFA world youth championship that was held in Netherlands, he also had an excellent tournament till Nigeria reached the finals, where they lost 2- 1 to Argentina.


On the month of April 29, 2005 premier league club, Manchester United announced that it had struck a deal with lyn to sign Mikel obi, the United website also claimed that they had done a deal directly with the player, and that he had signed a contract to join them.


Mike' s agent were bypassed as the club persuaded the youngster to sign a 4 years contract with out representation, the Manchester United' s rival premier league club Chelsea, later issued a counter claim, suggesting that they already had an agreement with Mikel obi, and his agents.



On the 12 of August 2011, Mikel obi' s father was a victim of a suspected kidnapping, but he was later released after the police intervened in the case.

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