Super Eagles captain, Vincent Enyeama, has been ranked the 18th
best goalkeeper in the world in 2015 by United Kingdom newspaper, The
Telegraph.
In
a poll conducted by the media outfit on its website, votes were cast to
determine who the best keeper in the world was and the Lille goalkeeper made
the list of top 20 goalkeepers in the world.
Bayern
Munich’s Manuel Neuer is in first place followed by Manchester United’s David
De Gea and Chelsea’s Thibaut Courtois. Joe Hart of Manchester City is fourth
while Gianluigi Buffon of Juventus came fifth.
Other
goalkeepers in the top 20 are Petr Cech of Chelsea, Keylor Navas and Iker
Casilas of Real Madrid, Hugo Lloris of Tottenham Hotspur and Salvatore Sirigu
of Paris St. Germain.
Victor
Valdes of Manchester United, Pepe Reina of Bayern Munich, Diego Lopez of AC
Milan, Samir Handanovic of Inter Milan, Wojciech Scezceny of Arsenal, Rene
Adler of Hamburg, Marc-Andre Ter Stegen and Claudio Bravo of Barcelona and
Southampton’s Fraser Forster complete the list.
Enyeama
has had an astounding season in the Ligue 1 with English giants Liverpool
reportedly scouting the Nigerian keeper ahead of a £3m deal at the end of the
season.
The
Reds’ scouts have been impressed with the 32-year-old’s performances after
watching him in action.
Enyeama
became only the second Nigerian footballer to attain the 100-cap mark, when he
featured for the Eagles in the 1-0 defeat to Uganda in an international
friendly in Uyo in March.
Meanwhile,
Enyeama has said he is not disappointed by his club’s inability to win any
trophy in the outgoing season.
Lille
are eighth in the French Ligue 1 table thereby missing out on the chance to
play in next season’s UEFA Europa League but the goalkeeper, who also missed
out on the Best African Player in the French League, toldfootballlive.com that he was already preparing for next
season.
“I
didn’t win any championship or trophy but I want to thank God, it was an
amazing year for me as a player,” he said.
“The
planning for the next championship has to start now and I think that we are
ready to start preparation for the forthcoming season.”
Enyeama
has kept 16 clean sheets for Lille this season but has conceded 40 goals in 37
games. During the 2013/14 season, Enyeama kept 11 consecutive clean sheets,
only conceding a goal after 1,062 minutes, which made him 114 minutes shy of
equalling Gaëtan Huard’s Ligue 1 goalkeeping record of 1,176 minutes of clean
sheets set in 1993
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