Former Tremendous Eagles captain, John Obi Mikel has opened up on how he clashed with former teammate, Victor Moses during the 2013 version of the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, match in South Africa.
Obi Mikel was talking on his podcast in regards to the current on-area conflict between Tremendous Eagles attackers Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman, as he additionally recalled his personal on-area conflict with Moses.
Recall that Osimhen had clashed with Lookman during Nigeria’s 4-0 victory in opposition to Mozambique on the 2025 AFCON Spherical of 16 encounter earlier this week.
“Once we received the AFCON in 2013, Victor Moses was my roommate. Now we all know Victor, when he will get the ball, he likes to go and dribble and create an opportunity, which was completely unbelievable for Victor,” Obi Mikel mentioned.
“A few instances, he does it and squares the ball, however he desires to shoot. Then I went to him and mentioned,
‘you must fucking cross the ball’, he mentioned no, and I mentioned, you must fucking cross the ball if anyone is fairly, extra open, as a result of we’ve got to win right here, Victor.
“It’s not about you, and we had an argument on the pitch. So after the sport, he was nonetheless offended from what occurred. We went into the room and for hours we slept, we didn’t converse to one another, we have been strolling passing one another within the room.
“We didn’t say something to one another, and we awoke the following morning, we didn’t say something to one another. Then, after we taught, there have been a lot greater issues right here; we spoke to one another, and we received. So this stuff occur, however we needed to deal with it.”
Nigeria received the 2013 AFCON after beating Burkina Faso 1-0 within the closing, because of Sunday Mba’s solely purpose of the encounter.
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