{"id":2298,"date":"2024-04-22T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibadanradio.com.ng\/blog\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2024-04-22T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:22:40","slug":"mikel-obi-stubborn-out-of-my-league-siasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibadanradio.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/04\/22\/mikel-obi-stubborn-out-of-my-league-siasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Obi stubborn, out of my league \u2013 Siasia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Nigerian coach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/how-i-became-super-eagle-coach-after-olisehs-departure-siasia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Samson Siasia<\/a>\u00a0has opened up about his relationship with former Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi, stating a tense dynamic that existed when he was the national team\u2019s head coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a podcast with ex-international Emmanuel Babayaro and journalist Matthew Edafe on Saturday, Siasia stated, \u201cMikel is a little bit out of my league. He\u2019s stubborn and I cannot tolerate people like that, that much.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the veteran coach did not mince words when addressing the challenges of managing the former Chelsea midfielder, He acknowledged Obi\u2019s impressive performance during the 2016 Olympic Games, where Nigeria won the bronze medal. \u201cThe only good thing he did was the Olympics, he came out and played because I\u2019ve warned him severally,\u201d Siasia recounted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siasia further praised Obi\u2019s leadership and contributions at the Olympic tournament. \u201cHe played very well and actually acted as a captain, and led the players well, and that\u2019s why we got to where we got to,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked about the most complete player he has ever coached, Siasia noted Chinedu Ogbuke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou don see Chinedu dey play ball? Magician, even me I dey feel the boy, wetin he dey do for practice, do am for match. I salute am,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian coach\u00a0Samson Siasia\u00a0has opened up about his relationship with former Super Eagles captain Mikel Obi, stating a tense dynamic that existed when he was the national team\u2019s head coach. In a podcast with ex-international Emmanuel Babayaro and journalist Matthew Edafe on Saturday, Siasia stated, \u201cMikel is a little bit out of my league. He\u2019s stubborn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,46],"tags":[74,8,73,72,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-2298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-mikel-obi","10":"tag-nigeria","11":"tag-samson-siasia","12":"tag-samson-siasia-and-mikel-obi","13":"tag-super-eagle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibadanradio.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibadanradio.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibadanradio.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibadanradio.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibadanradio.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibadanradio.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300,"href":"https:\/\/ibadanradio.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/2300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibadanradio.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibadanradio.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibadanradio.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibadanradio.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}