Mikel Obi Reveals Stunning Reason That Made Super Eagles Not to Qualify For 2022 World Cup

Former Super Eagles captain John Obi Mikel has explained that he felt so bad with the fact that Nigeria will not be participating in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

The former Chelsea star captained the Super Eagles to the 2018 edition in Russia where the Super Eagles failed to make it out of the group stages.

Super Eagles lost the 2022 World Cup ticket to Ghana thanks to the away goal the Black Stars scored at the MKO Abiola stadium in Abuja.

According to the report on Owngoal, Mikel Obi explained that there are many leaders in the Super Eagles which is not helping the team.

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''We were motivated and had a direction on the pitch with a leader also and all the 11 players were listening to one man on the pitch and not to many leaders.

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''We need a leader on the pitch for others to follow because you don't need five leaders but just one and when you have five leaders, that's not a unit.''

John Obi Mikel retired from the Super Eagles in 2019 after the African Cup of Nations.

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Earlier, Sports Brief had reported how Super Eagles star Odion Ighalo won his first-ever career title after inspiring Al Hilal to win the Saudi Professional League on Monday night.

The former Manchester United forward scored twice to help Al Hilal defeat Al Faisaly 2-1 in their final league game of the season at the King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh.

Ighalo also finished the campaign as the top scorer after bagging 24 goals in the course of the season as it became the 18th time Al Hilal will be winning the title.

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The forward who grew up in the Ajegunle area of Lagos began his professional career at Prime FC of Osun State in 2005 and then moved to Julius Berger FC the following year.

Ighalo moved to Europe in 2007, where he joined Norwegian outfit, Lyn, as he also played for clubs in China as well as England.