CAF president asks Samuel Eto’o to place apart tensions with the federal government

Patrice Motsepe, President of the Confederation of African Soccer (CAF), urges Samuel Eto’o, President of the Cameroon Soccer Federation (Fecafoot), to work extra carefully with the federal government and the Minister of Sports activities.

Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA, and Patrice Motsepe, President of CAF, arrived in Garoua on Friday 16 August to attend the funeral of Issa Hayatou, who died on August 8, 2024.

Throughout his speech for the event, Patrice Motsepe expressed the need to see Samuel Eto’o collaborate with the federal government for the advantage of Cameroonian soccer.

“I ask Samuel Eto’o to work in synergy with the Cameroonian authorities, particularly the Minister of Sports activities, in an effort to all the time elevate Cameroonian soccer greater.», declared the top of the umbrella physique of African soccer, in entrance of an viewers of political, diplomatic and relational figures.

An announcement that isn’t unintended, given the continuing tensions between the Ministry of Sports activities and Fecafoot, led by Eto’o, relating to the administration of the Cameroon nationwide soccer workforce.

Though Samuel Eto’o acknowledges the appointment of Belgian coach Marc Brys, chosen by the Minister of Sports activities, he’s nonetheless gradual to acknowledge different members of the technical and administrative workers, equivalent to François Omam-Biyik, Alioum Boukar, or the coordinator of the nationwide picks, Benjamin Bankock.