Former Nigeria international goalkeeper and captain, Vincent Enyeama took to his official Twitter account to reveal his passion for the round leather game and how much he has missed actions since his exit from Lille, Sports247 gathered.
Enyeama was a member of the Nigerian national team from 2002 until October 2015, serving as its captain from 2013 until his retirement from international football. With 101 caps, he is Nigeria’s most capped player of all time.
He wrote, “football, I miss that moment that I had to wake up to train in the dark when everyone else were sleeping. Those nights that most will be out there having fun and I will be falling with the ball in the https://t.co/WZUq6SMrUt’s not the destination but the passion, the fire, the joy.
He was on his way to equalling Gaëtan Huard’s Ligue 1 goalkeeping record, set in 1993, of playing 1,176 minutes without conceding a goal after keeping 11 consecutive clean-sheets but was beaten with a deflected strike away to Bordeaux after playing 1,062 minutes of Ligue 1 football.
During the 2017–18 season, Enyeama did not make a league appearance having been left out of the first team due to “a disagreement between the player and the club’s management”. He joined the first team’s pre-season training in July 2018.
He was released by mutual consent on 31 August 2018.
In January 2019 he said he was keen to play again and in July 2019 he went on trial with French club Dijon but despite not being offered a contract by Dijon he expressed gratitude to the club.
