Enyeama quits Super Eagles

Nigeria’s cap player and Lille OSC goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama, has called it quits from international football after 13 years with Nigeria.

The 33-year-old goalkeeper took the decision to quit just hours before Nigeria’s Super Eagles face DR Congo in an international friendly in Belgium on Thursday.

Enyeama, left the Nigerian camp in Belgium and is heading to his base in France.

The former Enyimba shot-stopper took to social media to announce his departure as Nigeria’s goalkeeper in the wake of a row with the country’s head coach, Sunday Oliseh, this week.

“I am no more the captain of the Nigerian senior football team. I am no more the goalie of the team. I am out of the team. I am no more available for international duties,” Enyeama stated on Thursday.

Enyeama, it was learned met with Oliseh at the team’s Hôtel Van Der Valk Verviers lodging in Belgium briefly to announce his departure from the national team.

The goalkeeper has made 101 international appearances for Nigeria since his debut against Kenya in May 2002.

Enyeama won the Africa Cup of Nations with the Super Eagles in 2013 and has represented the West African nation in three Fifa World Cup editions in 2002, 2010 and 2014 as well as the 2013 Fifa Confederations Cup in Brazil.

The goalkeeper now returns to Lille, where he has kept 39 clean sheets in the French Ligue 1 in the last three seasons.