{"id":354277,"date":"2011-03-31T15:49:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/31\/nigeria-mikel-lacks-creative-spark-siasia\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T15:49:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:49:33","slug":"nigeria-mikel-lacks-creative-spark-siasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/nigeria-mikel-lacks-creative-spark-siasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Mikel Lacks Creative Spark &#8211; Siasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47.656836461126\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.champion.com.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/6086cdc7champion180.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Champion (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Daily Champion (Lagos)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>31 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia has expressed concern that Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi has lost the creativity that catapulted him to the world stage six years ago in Holland during the Fifa Under-20 World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old Nigerian coach said that the former FC Lyn-Oslo midfielder is no longer the same player he handled to the 2005 edition of the Fifa U20 World Championships when the Nigerian U-20 finished in second place behind their Argentine counterparts.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>Siasia, who has coached the Nigerian U-20 and Under-23, said he is ready to talk to the 23-year-old midfielder in order to help him rediscover that creative flash that saw two English Premier League clubs, Chelsea and Manchester United, battle for his signature before the former got him into their fold.<\/p>\n<p>But Siasia believes that the situation is not all gloom, as he acknowledged that the defensive ability of the former Plateau United man has improved a great deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sincerely Mikel is not the same player that I knew in 2005 when we finished second behind Argentina in the U-20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He has lost his creative spark but defensively he is a better player. But as coach of the national team I will do everything in my disposal to help him get back to his creative best.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t get me wrong here. I am not saying that he is no longer a good player. But what I am saying is that there is the need to see Mikel get to the goal area of the opponents and shoot more.<\/p>\n<p>Also I will like to see him score a couple of goals and that will make him an all-round player defensively and offensively,&#8221; said Siasia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taken from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103311003.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Mikel Lacks Creative Spark - Siasia\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Mikel Lacks Creative Spark &#8211; Siasia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 31 March 2011 Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia has expressed concern that Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi has lost the creativity that catapulted him to the world stage six years ago in Holland during the Fifa Under-20 World Championships. The 43-year-old Nigerian coach said that the former FC Lyn-Oslo midfielder is no longer the same player he handled to the 2005 edition of the Fifa U20 World Championships when the Nigerian U-20 finished in second place behind their Argentine counterparts. Siasia, who has coached the Nigerian U-20 and Under-23, said he is ready to talk to the 23-year-old midfielder in order to help him rediscover that creative flash that saw two English Premier League clubs, Chelsea and Manchester United, battle for his signature before the former got him into their fold. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: Mikel Lacks Creative Spark - Siasia - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/nigeria-mikel-lacks-creative-spark-siasia\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Mikel Lacks Creative Spark - Siasia - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"31 March 2011 Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia has expressed concern that Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi has lost the creativity that catapulted him to the world stage six years ago in Holland during the Fifa Under-20 World Championships. 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