@rootedinthegame: Throwback to 2005… When John Obi Mikel & Lionel Messi battled it out for Player Of The Tournament at the U20 World Cup. Argentina came out winners over Nigeria in the final. 🇳🇬🇦🇷 🗣️ Obi Mikel: When we lost against Argentina in the U-20 World Cup, Messi won the Golden Ball and I won the Silver Ball. At the end of the coronation, I told him, ‘You stole the Golden Ball from me. I deserved it, I was better than you’ Messi smiled and said to me: ‘I have nothing to do with the matter, the Committee is the one who chooses.’ We went out and I found him again near the locker room. He said to me, ‘Take the Golden Ball and give me the Silver Ball if you want’. I answered: ‘I can’t, you deserve it. I was just angry, thank you” Humble since his youth days. What a story. . . #mikelobi #fifaworldcup #supereagles #chelsea #messi

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