Vincent Enyeama Or Peter Rufai: Who Is Nigeria's Best Goalkeeper Ever?
So much emphasis is placed on attackers and goal-getters in modern football that rarely is the searchlight focused on the goalkeepers, Soccernet.ng reports .
Nigerias men national team has always been blessed with a clutch of fantastic safe pair of hands between the goalposts so often that we take it for granted.
Best Ogedengbe was an IICC Shooting Stars hero who was between the sticks when Nigeria lifted her first significant honour at the Nations Cup in 1980.
Then there was Emmanuel Okala. That giant of a goaltender whose sight alone made strikers grow wobbly legs.
But the Nations Cup feat ensured Ogedengbe was Nigeria's best until a certain Peter Rufai burst on to the scene.
Young, confident, and physically just as imposing as Okala, Rufai sealed his place in history by helping the country win the African Cup of Nations AFCON in 1994.
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