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odumorun 1: Seven years ago in the 2005 under 21 World cup Mikel Obi was voted 2nd best young player in the world after Lionel Messi in a tournament many felt he outplayed the brilliant Argentine. Fast forward 2012, Messi is talked about in the same breath as Pele, Maradona and Cruyff. Obi has not got a goal or even as assist for Chelsea.

The level of understanding on this board of what football is actually about, reflected in the absurd qts of how you rate a defensive midfielder in a game when his team had 10 men defending, shows everything that is wrong with our national game in an era dominated by Nigerian fans who grew up watching the premier league. Mikel Obi has contributed nothing to Nigerian football; he has won nothing for the country, done nothing for the national team so it is quite right as one poster did to compare him to Okocha.

Like Drogba and Essien who also contribute next to nothing to their countries he represents the dour new face of an African game that once produced giants of skill and technique like Abedi Pele, Roger Milla, Austin Okocha, Nwankwo Kanu, George Weah.

Mikel Obi, Drogba, Essien, big strong, physically powerful and functional players who can at times perform in well drilled dour and mechanical teams but who lack of real flair is exposed time and time again when they play in international tournaments where they are required to show a bit of initiative - they are found wanting

The colonisation of African football by the premier league has meant we now produce players, whose style is alien to our own culture and natural style for them, the same way we convert our land to growing cash crops for their factories while our own people go hungry because we can't produce enough subsistence crops. How many local talents playing under any flyover in Lagos do you see playing like Obi or Essien. Our climate favours a more languid more skilful and more intelligent style. But we are now being forced to grow players in an artificial style to suit the premier league. The result our worst national team in 40 years and the balance of power in Africa moving to the north and east from the former stronghold of the western coast. The last time a West African side won the nations cup was 10 years ago in 2002.

The reason is the main advantage we used to have over the North Africans - individual skill and unpredictability is now gone. You know what people like Mikel or Odemingwe are going to do before they do it. The English premier league with its fast frenetic pace beats out any real sign of individuality in our players destroying their natural instinct.

During our best years 1994 - 96 how many of our best players played in the technically inferior Premier league. Virtually none of them. When the likes of Okocha, Amuneke, Amokachis had the ball at their feet, such was their comfort on the ball, their skill that neither you nor the opponent knew what they were going to do next.

Now we all know what our best player - Mikel Obi will do when he gets the ball, he sneaks forward, just a bit makes a square pass to Lampard, or Ramires then runs back to the half way line like a good little boy. The opposing 18 yard box ?- say wetin happen ? wetin I wan find there That is the kind of weak spirit we want to lead us to the promised land

They tried to do the same to the great Samuel Eto in Madrid - But he had enough fire in his belly so he left to mallorca to prove himself than to Barca He spoke up for himself - Now he is recognised as one of the greats. 3 champion league trophies, in which he scored in 2 finals.