Vincent Enyeama Makes Football History In France

 

Super Eagles stand in captain, Vincent Enyeama, on Tuesday went into the record books in France.

The 31-year-old is now the goal keeper with the second longest clean sheet record in Ligue 1 after he inspired Lille OSC to a 1-0 win over the country’s best supported club, Olympic Marseille at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy on match day 16 of the competition.

Record holder, Sirigu, went 949 minutes without conceding in Ligue 1 between November 17, 2012 and February 8, 2013 but Enyeama who had gone 945 minutes without conceding before Tuesday’s game surpassed the mark with a clean sheet at the Villeneuve d'Ascq against La OM.

Enyeama who has not let in a single goal in his last 11 league outings with Lille has now gone 1,035 minutes without letting in a goal in the French top flight.

If the former Enyimba goalkeeper does not concede in the next 142 minutes of action in the league, he will go into the history books as the goalkeeper with the record of going the longest number of minutes without conceding a goal.
The current record is held by the now retired Gaëtan Huard who achieved the feat playing for FC Girondins de Bordeaux in the 1992/93 season.

Lille OSC’s next games in the league are against Bordeaux at the Stade Jacques Chaban-Delmas on December 8 and against Bastia at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy on December 15.

Clean sheets in those games will see the Nigerian achieve football folklore in France but the shot stopper had told supersportsport.com in November that such a feat does not mean much to him.

“I don’t keep statistics. I am surprised you just read out the facts for me. Honestly, I wasn’t even aware because I just go out to play football,” he said.

Tuesday’s win against La OM takes Lille to just a point behind PSG at the top of Ligue one though the Parisiens have played a game less than the Mastiffs.