Enyeama Clinches Marc-Vivien Foe Prize for Best African Player in France

Nigeria international goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama was named winner of the RFI-France 24 Marc-Vivien Foe Award for the best African Player in the French Ligue 1 for the 2013/14 season.

The award organised- in memory of the late Cameroonian player who died on the pitch at Stade de Gerland in Lyon on June 26th 2003- is aimed at rewarding Africa’s best players in France’s top division.

The Super Eagles goalkeeper piped more votes than Toulouse’s Serge Aurier (defender, Ivory Coast), Olympique Lyonnais’s Henri Bedimo (Cameroon), Lyon’s Solomon Kalou (forward, Ivory Coast) and Guingamp’s Mustapha Yatabare (Mali).

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However, Enyeama was edged out of the official Ligue 1 team of the year, as Paris St. Germain (PSG) goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu claimed the best goalkeeper of the year honour.

The shot-stopper fell just 115 minutes short of Gaetan Huard’s overall French top flight goalkeeping record- set during the 1992/93 season- of 1,176 clean sheets, in his first season playing as a first choice with the French club.

Enyeama kept 11 consecutive clean sheets in league matches during the first half of the 2013/14 campaign. He finally conceded an own-goal after playing 1062 minutes of Ligue 1 games in an away match at Bordeaux