{"id":10379,"date":"2024-01-04T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/mikel-rules-our-coaching-super-eagles\/"},"modified":"2024-01-04T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:03:00","slug":"mikel-rules-our-coaching-super-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/mikel-rules-our-coaching-super-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel rules out coaching Super Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Super Eagles captain John Mikel Obi has ruled out the possibility of coaching the Super Eagles in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel retired from active football last year.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old enjoyed an illustrious career with the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>The former midfielder had represented Nigeria 91 times, with six goals to his name.<\/p>\n<p>The former Chelsea midfielder hinted that he would prefer an administrative position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be involved with the national team at some point,\u201d Mikel told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut not as a coach, as I don\u2019t want to get sacked (laughs). I can\u2019t handle that. However, I would like to fix the problems from the top; maybe mediate between the players and the federation and make sure things are run properly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, success is not about what happened on the pitch but with the right structures from the top as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mikel rules out coaching Super Eagles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Super Eagles captain John Mikel Obi has ruled out the possibility of coaching the Super Eagles in the future.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5523,15,160,869],"tags":[873,2095,180,201,870],"class_list":["post-10379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mikel","category-news","category-sport","category-super-eagles","tag-eagles","tag-mikel","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-super"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}