Ball Assault: Vincent Enyeama sees red for a chuck (Hapoel Tel Aviv-Bnei Yehuda)
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
A bizarre incident closed out the Ligat ha’Al match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Bnei Yehuda on Saturday night in Israel.
Having taken the lead thanks to a Ben Luz cracker after 13 minutes, Bnei Yehuda pulled back level through an Assi Baldout penalty. Hapoel then regained the lead with 20 minutes remaining when their goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama converted the second spot-kick of the day.
The fact that keeper Enyeama got on the scoresheet at all is a story worth noting. But the Nigerian custodian rewrote the headlines with a crazy assault in the very last seconds of the match which gave the referee little option but to send the shot-stopper off.
With the clock ticking down, Bnei Yehuda launched a final attack with the ball eventually ending up in Enyeama’s hands. Visiting striker Kobi Moyal then got in the keeper’s grill spewing verbals at the keeper as the frustration of defeat was clearly setting in.
But rather than being the bigger man Enyeama rose to the bait.
Lifting the ball above his head with both hands, Enyeama proceeded to hurl the ball straight at Moyal’s head with the object full-on crashing into it’s target from just a yard away. Madness!
Watch Vincent Enyeama’s ball-assault here.
4 Responses to “Ball Assault: Vincent Enyeama sees red for a chuck (Hapoel Tel Aviv-Bnei Yehuda)”
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March 23rd, 2009 at 4:28 pm
i’m a Nigerian. i’m tired of this boys which are always causing problems outside the country. the play well but attitude is bad. look at Mikel Obi in chelsea, he was the most violent player in a season.this is bad. this shows that money and fame quickly intoxicates nigerian.
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:08 pm
That’s why I never answer their e-mails.
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Enyema’s behavior is not fair,
but he is the BEST goalkeeper in Israel, as all of the footbal fans are saying there.
Who knows, maybe we’ll see him at europe.
I saw some of his performance, he’s a very good goalkeeper
June 4th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Vincent Enyeama is amazing, its more funny than violent, makes me laugh that the guy who wrote the article says “Enyeama proceeded to hurl the ball straight at Moyal’s head with the object full-on crashing into it’s target from just a yard away” come man, its a ball not a big heavy object, players head balls coming in from crosses with around 200% more power! Enyeama is a quality player who reminds me of another crazy but amazing Goalkeeper from years back ‘Jose Luis Chilavert’