MIKEL WINS GOAL NIGERIA PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD

It's been
an
eventful
year for
Chelsea
midfielder
Mikel Obi,
he
scooped
major football awards this year, won the Africa Cup
of Nations with Nigeria, scored his first English
Premier League goal for Chelsea after eight years
and then capped it with 2014 World Cup
qualification. The Nigerian international has for the
second time in the year won the Goal Nigeria Player
of the Year Award; courtesy of readers of goal
website.
He won the title ahead of Vincent Enyeama,
Emmanuel Emenike, Victor Moses and Godfrey
Oboabona. The Chelsea man polled 49 per cent of
votes cast to win the title for the second time after
being voted winner in 2012. He finished ahead of
compatriots Enyeama (28.6%), Emenike (13.2%),
Moses (6.4%) and Oboabona (2.8%).
"It's an honour to win this award again and I'm very
happy to know that my people, my Nigerian fans,
support me and love what I'm doing." He said
On his biggest award this year, "I think if I had to
pick one, I'd say winning the Africa Cup of Nations -
that was really big for me and for the country
because we've waited for almost 20 years to win it
again"
He continued, "Going into that tournament, I don't
think many people really gave us a chance of
winning it but we had the belief that we've got a
very good team and a very good manager.
The way the team has changed in the past couple of
years, especially with the younger players, we were
hungry for success. I think winning the Africa Cup of
Nations was the big one for me."