Guinea’s Keeper Salutes Eaglets

Ganaeka Ibrahima, Guinea’s petit goalkeeper has admitted Golden Eaglets superiority following the Junior Syli Stars 7-0 aggregate lost to their Nigerian counterparts in the 2013 under- 17 qualifiers.

 It was Ibrahima’s agility over the two-legged matches, that stopped the Golden Eaglets from recording a double figure score line but he only words of praises for the Nigerian conquistadors!

“The Nigerian team is good and have good quality," Ibrahima who was adjudged the best player with some instinctive saves during the first leg in Calabar, said through an interpreter.

“They played good football and it showed when we played them in Nigeria and here in Conakry.

Ibrahima has started displaying the hallmark of great goalkeepers with his sharp reflexes and incredible anticipation to dislodge opponents but the pint-sized keeper found himself at the receiving end as he was rooted in one spot when Alhassan Ibrahim struck a thunderous right footer straight into the net!

 “I didn't expect No 8(Ibrahim) to shoot and I thought he wanted to make a pullout for the No 9(Success Isaac) but the ball was already in the net before I realised it," he explained. “We lost to a very good team that is fit and strong and that was we congratulated them after the match.”