Former Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi has picked his more special career moment between winning the African Cup of Nations and the UEFA Champions League.

The former Super Eagles star was part of the Blues squad that made history by winning the club's first ever UEFA Champions League title in Munich back in 2012.

Mikel Obi went ahead to achieve another remarkable feat by guiding the Super Eagles to win Nigeria's third African Cup of Nations in South Africa a year later.

The 38-year-old was asked which of these two feat stood out for him as a professional footballer and he came out with the following:

“We play everything, we win the Premier League, the Champions League, but it’s always special when you win something with your national team. I’ve always said that my African Cup of Nations title, I’ll rank it together with the Champions League. When you see the joy it brings not just to you or your family but the people of the country, in Africa we go crazy about football, football is everything,” Mikel said on That Peter Crouch Podcast.

“We had Didier Drogba stop a war because of football, that’s how massive it is for us. That’s why I responded to Carragher when he tried to discredit a tournament that people die for, that people go crazy for. I shed my blood and tears to win it, I respect the European tournament, don’t discredit our tournament.”