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.

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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.