Ameobi Can Be President - Newcastle Boss

Super Eagles striker, Shola Ameobi has been hailed as an admirable personality off the pitch, so much so that his Newcastle coach Alan Pardew believes he has the intelligence and aura to go all the way and become a Prime Minister after retiring from football.

Top British tabloid, The Telegraph, has quoted Pardew as saying, in glowing terms, that Shola is endowed with such intelligence and admirable personality well above an average Premier League footballer,
and Newcastle have benefitted immensely from such rare qualities.
According to The Telegraph, Pardew believes Ameobi is so clever that he could become a very successful man with another life outside football, especially if he decides to make a new career in politics.
“Most times footballers are put into this category where they’re not particularly bright,” said Pardew.
“They’ve not really got a personality you would aspire too, well Shola is the complete opposite. "You could put him in any environment, any school, any political field and he could hold his own.
It is that intelligence that he brings to the dressing room. “I don’t know what will happen with Shola in the future, he could become Prime Minister one day with his personality,” Pardew states.
The Telegragh emphasizes: "Ameobi has become the club’s elder statesman after 14 years there and has helped to pull together a divided dressing room that last season almost cost the club its Premier League status."
Ameobi, 32, switched his international football allegiance to Nigeria this year, and he is now working hard and hoping to make Stephen Keshi's squad to Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup.
His current contract with Newcastle runs out at the end of this season. Whether or not the club will negotiate an extension of his contract is an issue of conjecture.


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