Costa Rica’s and Real Madrid’s goalkeeper Keylor Navas, who is one of the nominees of The 2017 FIFA Best Goalkeeper Award, multiplies both club and team performance.
He took part in the fight of the FIFA Club World Cup and a second consecutive Champions League in 2016/17 season with his current team Real Madrid.
At the same time, his final rampart is not for nothing after his national team Costa Rica booked its tickets to the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
This year, FIFA have announced the goalkeeper nominees for their next the best awards. Navas has been named among the three nominees in The Best FIFA goalkeeper. He is competing for the elite award against Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and German Manuel Neur.
“He derves it,” Costa Rican defender Kendall Waston said. “He knew how to keep things simple. This is the type of player who trains every day 100%.
“Every time he comes to a field, he gives himself to the bottom, it never has a day withou. He found sime difficulties when he arrived at Real Madrid, but that’s normal when you change clubs.cIn overcoming trials, he proved that he had charactter I think it’s progressing.” Waston added.
If the Real Madrid goalkeeper were to be elected The 2017 FIFA Best Goalkeeper Award on October 23 in London, all Costa Ricans can imagine the euphoria that would seize the country.
“When he is behind us, we feel safe, we know that in case of danger, he will always be there to help us, he talks to us a lot, he tries to make his experience grow to the maximum every time he comes in selection.” Waston said.
“It would be sometihing huge because we never knew about that. We have never had a player who has won such an important award. If Keylor win, it will be a historic event Costa Rica.” Waston credited Navas.
Manuel Neur dan Gianluigi Buffon are aslo nominees in The 2017 Best FIFA Goalkeeper Award. (Source:www.uefa.com)
On the other hand, Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon helped the Italian giant to a sixth consecutive Serie A title so far, and a third successive domestic double.
The veteran goalkeeper still in search of a first ever Champions League trophy, however his side Juve were comfortably beaten by Real Madrid last season.
Manuel Neur, meanwhile, consistenly one of the best goalkeepers in the world at the moment. The German helped Bayern Munich to another Bundesliga title last season.
But he failed to book Champions Leaague semi-final last season along Munich. However he still did enough to gain a FIFA nomination award this year.
