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John Mikel Obi has revealed how he paid for the U-23 Eagles team’s flight to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil.
Mikel was one of the three overage players named in the squad by then handler of the team, Samson Siasia.
The former Chelsea midfielder was also handed the captain’s armband, leading the team to third position in the men’s football event.
The former Lyn Oslo of Norway star however revealed how poor planning on the part of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) nearly scuppered the team’s ambition.
“When I represented my country at the Olympics in Brazil, we had to fly there, and we waited from morning till night, waiting for a plane to take us to Brazil,” Mikel said on his podcast.
“There was no plane to take us to Brazil because there was in-fighting behind the scene of who was going to pick up the tab.
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