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05th June
Chelsea midfielder Mikel John Obi has been dropped by Nigeria from the World Cup after he told officials he did not wish to further aggravate his knee injury.
"We have dropped Mikel from the World Cup after he told the team he did not want to put his career at risk as his knee injury has yet to fully heal after a recent surgery," top team official Emmanuel Attah informed MTNFootball.com Saturday morning.
Mikel has been a huge doubt for the World Cup as he last played for his English club against Tottenham in April.
Before this big injury blow, a confident coach Lars Lagerback had assured that Mikel will play a part of Sunday's warm-up game against North Korea.
Keen followers of the Super Eagles had worried that Nigeria were taking a big chance on Mikel after he did not play in the team's two build-up games against Saudi Arabia and Colombia.
He was the last player to join up with the rest of the squad at their training camp in Essex, England, last week.
In South Africa, he cut short his work out with the team for two straight days.
Attah informed MTNFootball.com that top team officials are currently meeting to decided on a replacement for Mikel.
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