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The Dream Team: Episode One - The Goalkeepers

Over the coming months, Goal and Absa, the Official African Banking Partner of the Premier League, will be selecting The Dream Team—our greatest XI picked from African players who featured in the top-flight.
The criteria is very simple; we’ll be selecting players for each position in our team weekly, with players eligible only if they played during the Premier League era and they represented an African national team.

We’re building a proper team to compete for the title, and critical for any title-winning team is a strong goalkeeper.

Here are the four African stoppers shortlisted for the No. 1 spot in our Dream Team.

The Dream Team

The long-serving Wolves keeper never signed permanently for another club despite eight loan spells across a 15-year career, and he’s remembered fondly in the Black Country for his loyalty to the Old Gold.
He only made one Premier League appearance for the Midlanders—in the 2011-12 season—before illness tragically cut short his career.

The stopper was Nigeria’s successor to longstanding keeper Vincent Enyeama, and was unfortunate to miss out on the 2018 World Cup.

Carl Ikeme

A Ghana great, Kingson was a key figure in the Black Stars team that became only the third African nation to reach the World Cup quarter-finals when they beat the United States to reach the Last Eight in 2010.
He represented three clubs during a nomadic career, turning out for Wigan Athletic, Birmingham City and Blackpool.

The West African was a favourite of Steve Bruce at the first two clubs, but his Premier League career ended with relegation with the Seasiders in 2011.

Richard Kingson

An African legend by any measure, Grobbelaar is a Liverpool hero and was influential for the Reds as they won the 1984 European Cup.
No one could forget the Zimbabwe stopper’s influence in the penalty shootout in that fixture, as his bandy legs ensured the title came back to Anfield.

By the time the Premier League was inaugurated in the early 90s, however, he was past his best, although he did feature for the Reds and Southampton then.

Bruce Grobbelaar

Signed by Chelsea for £22 million earlier this season, Mendy established himself as the Blues’ number one quickly, dispatching the incumbent Kepa Arrizabalaga.
The Senegal keeper is a commanding and imposing presence, and he deserves credit for how quickly he’s settled in the Premier League.

Already, the former Stade Rennais man has broken clean sheet records at Stamford Bridge, and he looks set for a long and fruitful career in West London.

Edouard Mendy

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Goal and Absa, the Official African Banking Partner of the Premier League, reveal the shortlist for our African top-flight dream team.

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