{"id":38243,"date":"2024-06-20T20:04:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T20:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/mikel-obi-names-his-best-midfielders\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T20:04:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T20:04:29","slug":"mikel-obi-names-his-best-midfielders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/mikel-obi-names-his-best-midfielders\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Obi names his best midfielders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Chelsea star John Obi Mikel has named Andres Iniesta and Kevin De Bruyne as his ultimate midfielders.<\/p>\n<p>The former Nigeria international spoke in an interview with ESPN, where he also picked Sergio Busquets.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel picked Busquets for his passing ability and former Italian midfielder, Gennaro Gatusso for his work rate.<\/p>\n<p>The former Super Eagles star also included ex-Blaugrana manager Xavi for his ability to score.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel picked Iniesta for his vision, a quality, according to him, that is extremely important in tight spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Iniesta, 40, played 674 games across all competitions for Barcelona, scored 57 goals and made 136 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel chose De Bruyne for the same quality as the Belgium international has scored 107 goals and assisted 170 times for Manchester City in 382 appearances across competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Obi names his best midfielders<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chelsea star John Obi Mikel has named Andres Iniesta and Kevin De Bruyne as his ultimate midfielders. The former&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2091,15,160],"tags":[3494,829,18683,2095,351,180,794,201],"class_list":["post-38243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mikel-obi","category-news","category-sport","tag-best","tag-his","tag-midfielders","tag-mikel","tag-names","tag-news","tag-obi","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243","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=38243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}