The captain of the Super Eagles has escaped a crash which could be extremely fatal to the player. The plane which he had gone was grounded due to the failure in the engine, the other players of Middlesborough had some risk involved in them and the team had to cancel the flight from the Newport Country.

John Obi Mikel, the veteran defensive mid-fielder appearing in over 200 league games till now with Chelsea since 2006. The team was going out to the next fixture of the league and this comes at a time when the world of Football was already mourning the death of the signing of Cardiff City, Sala. They had finished with their 2 – 0 defeat in the FA Cup.

Register more than 50 caps for the Super Eagles. On January of the year 2017, the player had left the Chelsea team and now the player is of the age of 31. The Nigerian was looking for a new club after leaving the side of Chinese Super league Teda by consent that was mutual having a year left on his deal. He was very keen to ensure that he comes to play for his home international team, the Nigerian team.

John left the club Tianjin Teda in January 2019 when the Nigerian international canceled its contract with the club. It might've seemed that the game time must have been difficult under Antonio Conte.

“The player served Chelsea for ten hardworking years playing the foundations for his more creative counterparts during the same“. Also, he couldn't make his trip to the World cup 2010 with the Super Eagles due to his bad injury. He had started his professional career with Lyn in Norway “before arriving at London“.

He has made more than eight appearances for Chelsea since the decade; he served them even helping them with the Premier League 2009-10 and Champions league 2011-12.