Alisson of Liverpool has been tipped to win the Golden Gloves award at the World Cup in Qatar.
The Brazil international, a £66 million signing by Jurgen Klopp in 2018 [BBC Sport], has already kept a clean sheet at the competition following a 2-0 victory over Serbia on Thursday evening.
Thibaut Courtois of Belgium won the award at the 2018 edition of the competition for Belgium.
But former Liverpool left-back Jose Enrique is tipping the South American to win the award this time around.
He said on Instagram:
Honestly, it’s a very good shout by Enrique and one that could well materialise.
As Courtois proved four years ago, you don’t have to win the competition with your nation to scoop this Golden Gloves award.
That being said, the previous two winners before Courtois – Germany’s Manuel Neuer and Iker Casillas of Spain – both wound up being world champions during the tournament.
The Liverpool player is undeniably one of the world’s finest goalkeepers – if not the finest – and he has as good a chance as anybody of scooping the prize this time around.
Michel Preud’homme from Belgium won the Golden Gloves award – known as the Lev Yashin award until 2006 – in its first year back in 1994.
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