The Lille of France goalkeeper on Monday lost the 2014 BBC African Player of the Year award to Algerian Yacine Brahimi, but his name has again come up on a list where he has been named among the players who distinguished themselves in 2014.
Enyeama is one of the top 50 players in the world listed by Norwegian football magazine Josimar in its latest edition. The eventual winner will be announced later.
The magazine assimilated the combination of European football experts Tor-Kristian Karlsen, Gabriele Marcotti and Philippe Auclair to name the top 50 players in the world for the year 2014.
Karlsen is a Norwegian football scout, while Marcotti and Auclair are two of Europe’s most prominent football journalists.
Seven goalkeepers made the list with Enyeama being the only African in this category. The six other goalkeepers are German World Cup winner Manuel Neuer, Thibout Courtois, Keylor Navas, Hugo Lloris, David de Gea and Gianluigi Buffon.
Overall, only two Africans are on the list with the other, apart from Enyeama, being Yaya Toure. Toure and Enyeama are also on the five-player shortlist for the 2014 GLO-CAF African Footballer of the Year award.
The list expectedly also contains names like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, who have already been shortlisted for the 2014 FIFA Ballon d’Or award with Neuer.
It also contains names like Arjen Robben, Diego Costa, Neymar, Angel di Maria, Gareth Bale, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Luis Suarez and Frank Lampard.
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