Vincent Enyeama nominated for Ligue 1's best goalkeeper award
The former Super Eagles’
goalkeeper has been listed for the Marc-Vivien Foe award following his imposing
performance in goal for Les Dogues
Vincent Enyeama has been nominated by the Professional Union of French
Players (UNFP) for the best goalkeeper award in the French Ligue 1.
The
former Nigeria goalkeeper made the list of nominees for the most outstanding
players in France this season after keeping 14 clean sheets in 21 out of 35
matches for sixth placed Lille.
“Second
nomination in three years, I’m very proud to be a Lille player,” Enyeama wrote
on Instagram.
He was
named among the top 10 goalkeepers in Europe for the 2015/16 season by the
Swiss-based CIES Football Observatory.
The
ranking was done taking into account the number of goals conceded per match,
number of minutes per goal, number of passes per match, number of saves per
match, number of saves per goal conceded and the percentage of saves.
The
33-year-old finished in sixth place behind illustrious goalkeepers like Manuel
Neuer of Bayern Munich, Jan Oblak of Atletico Madrid, Gianluigi Buffon of
Juventus, Kevin Trapp of PSG and Claudio Bravo of Barcelona.
The
Nigerian missed out on winning silverware with Lille this season as they lost
2-1 to PSG in Saturday’s French Cup final.