Former Super Eagles and Enyimba International shot stopper, Vincent Enyeama has said he is on the verge of grooming Nigeria’s next generation goalkeepers to give a solution to the present challenges being encountered in the position in Nigeria today.
The former Lille metropole of France goal tender, told journalist that he is nursing plans to raise an academy for this purpose. “I have plans with the governor of my state (Akwa Ibom) to raise an academy for the people. I have a few goalkeepers I am training already. I want to give back, to raise clean sheet machines,”Enyeama told ESPN.
According to the former goalkeeper, this inspiration was gotten from the three weeks he spent in Bolton Wanderers in England. As he claimed, the experience he got there reshaped his thinking as a goalkeeper
Enyeama said: “I was a very good goalkeeper before I went to train with Bolton, but the two or three weeks I spent at Bolton gave me a different style of goalkeeping and opened my eyes.
“The goalkeeper trainer then, Fred Barber, told me things I needed to change. When I started doing the things he told me, I unlocked different levels to my game.
“I started using those methods and my game really changed. It is those secrets that I want to impart to my students.”
Enyeama made 101 appearances for the Super Eagles and was part of the squad that won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa.
