Eto'o has been in charge of Cameroonian football for a year now. And infuriates everyone

Almost a year ago, Samuel Eto’o took over the leadership of the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) on a 4-year contract. And while everything is going very strange around him, there is constantly a storm and scandals.

We are talking about the brightest of them.

After a crush at the stadium during the home Africa Cup, Eto’O called his family to training victims, and then compared football with war

Eto’o's presidential term began with a tragedy: a stampede occurred at the African Cup of Cameroon, home to Cameroon, during the match against the Comoros in the ⅛ final. 8 people died, another 38 were injured melbet-azerbaycan.com (7 of them had serious injuries).

The players asked Eto’O to transfer bonuses (85.5 thousand dollars each) for reaching the playoffs to the families of the victims, but the head of the federation had his own plan, first he invited the families of the dead and injured to a training session in Cameroon (they even had a photo shoot there), and then ambiguously set the team up for the semi-finals with Egypt: We have one goal - the next game on Thursday. You need to use this opportunity. Get ready, because it will be a war.

Egypt coach Carlos Queiroz did not understand these words. A very bad message to the people of Cameroon, Queiroz told ESPN. I think he forgot that the Cameroonians died in the stadium a few days ago, so the declaration of war before one game shows that he has learned nothing from his time in professional football. A very unfortunate comment, because football is not a war.

Motivation from Eto’O did not help Cameroon lost on penalties and did not reach the final.

At the African Cup, Cameroon was suspected of forging tests for covid. After rumors, Eto’O got from the Secretary General of the Ministry of Communications

There were many scandals during the Africa Cup: for example, Cameroon was accused of falsifying coronavirus tests. For the entire tournament, only four infected people were identified in their team, while Senegal had 10 people sick by the second game of the group stage, and Comoros were left without goalkeepers by the ⅛ finals.

After 3rd place in the African Cup the sports minister supported the coach, but Eto’o did not agree. The result is the resignation and compensation of 1.5 million euros

After the Africa Cup, the madness continued It’O scandalously fired coach António Conceição, having quarreled with the Minister of Sports of Cameroon, Narcis Muel Kombi.

February 14, Kombi said that Conceição will continue to work with the national team despite finishing 3rd in the African Cup at home.

Every time we took the trophy, the national team had a foreign coach, the minister said on CRTV. Now this is even more important, given that in March there will be joints for entering the World Cup. Our priority is not to destabilize the team by removing the coach. The team is rebuilding. If you look at the statistics at Conceição, Cameroon has two defeats in 23 matches, 14 of which we have kept clean sheets.

Everything seemed to be decided Conceição remains to take Cameroon to the 2022 World Cup. But Combi did not like this statement, and he wrote a letter to the minister, in which he recalled that the administrative, sports and technical decisions related to the Cameroon national teams are taken by the football federation.

On February 16, an emergency meeting of the executive committee of the Cameroon Football Federation, after which they published a statement that the fate of Conceição will be decided personally by Eto’O within 72 hours.