Super Eagles
skipper, Joseph Yobo played his first competitive game in the European
Champions League qualifier for Turkish side Fernabahce against Emmanuel
Emenike’s Spartak Moscow on Tuesday, with a huge sigh of relief that he
is back to competitive football after three months.
Yobo, who was
in action for all the duration of the encounter said apart from the
relief of returning to competitive football, it feels like three years
since he kicked the round leather game, given God the praise for seeing
him through his period of travails through injuries and the long period
it took for him to negotiate his way from Everton to Fernabahce.
Yobo’s side
lost the away tie by 2-1 but the towering Eagles skipper, said he was
glad to be back in competitive football and expressed optimism that his
side will win the return leg in Turkey to join the lucrative group stage
of the Champions League.
Yobo, again
expressed his readiness to be back in the thick of things for the
national team after missing the last three qualifiers for the World Cup
2014 and the Nations Cup 2013. “If invited I will give my best as always
to the nation, because like I have always said I want to win trophies
for the Super Eagles”.
The Super
Eagles play Lone Star of Liberia September 8, and Yobo is one of the
stars expected to be called up by Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu
Keshi.
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