The Super Eagles have been
having goalkeeping challenges since the Lille of France safe hands; Vincent
Enyeama quit the national team.
The discovery of Ikeme helped to stabilize the
defence for sometime but Rohr seems not to have confidence on his assistants,
Ikechukwu Ezenwa and Daniel Akpeyi.
As Super Eagles Technical
Adviser, Gernot Rohr continues to mull over the goalkeeping problem facing the
team, an American based goalkeeper, Joel Isyag says he has what it takes to
fill that gap.
Isyag who stands at over
6.2ft just signed for the Super Eagles Football Club of Maryland has already
become his team’s first choice shot-stopper with over six clean sheets in his
last games with other individual awards.
Recall that first choice
goalkeeper, Carl Ikeme has been ruled out for the rest of the season, even as
the team is preparing for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against African
champions, the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon as well as the African Cup of
Nations (AFCON) qualifier against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa in June.
Speaking from his base in the USA, the Kaduna State-born Isyag who will turn 21
this May said he is optimistic that his inclusion in the national team will
make that position more competitive. “I know that composure, positioning, sharp
reflexes, agility, techniques, anticipation, ball handling, coupled with great
saves are just some of the attributes of a good goalkeeper and I truly have
them all.
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