For a number of weeks, Cameroonian soccer has been within the grip of an influence battle between two factions across the nationwide group. However, in response to info printed by Jeune Afrique on Might 14, 2024, the President of the Republic, Paul Biya, determined to intervene personally to place an finish to the battle.
Is the conflict between the Cameroonian Soccer Federation (Fecafoot) and the Ministry of Sports activities and Bodily Training (Minsep) coming to an finish? The query to this reply might be YES, after studying a paid article printed right now by Jeune Afrique on its web site.
Whereas he had declined a summons on Might 10, Marc Brys, new coach of the Indomitable Lions Cameroon, introduced himself this Might 13 in Yaoundé, on the headquarters of the federation, following a brand new request signed by the secretary common of the latter, Blaise Djounang.
The assembly of Might 13 was chaired by Blaise Djounang and took the type of a working assembly, throughout which Marc Brys was in a position to submit the checklist of 31 Indomitable Lions preselected for Cameroon’s matches towards Cape Verde and Angola, scheduled for subsequent June. Nevertheless, the battle of expertise between Fecafoot and the federal government continues to persist.
In line with Jeune Afrique, Paul Biya took the initiative to place an finish to the battle. The pan-African newspaper recollects the restricted assembly which happened in early Might between Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute and Fecafoot, throughout which the Secretary Normal of the Prime Minister Séraphin Magloire Fouda expressed his dissatisfaction with Samuel Eto’o, urging him to ‘sort things.
Throughout this assembly, we study from Jeune Afrique, Samuel Eto’o maintained his resolution to nominate his personal workers, Martin Ndtoungou Mpilé and David Pagou as assistant coaches, to accompany Marc Brys. The ministry, nonetheless, was against it, to the purpose that Paul Biya lastly determined to intervene. In line with info from Jeune Afrique, the pinnacle of state had one in all his closest collaborators name Narcisse Mouelle Kombi on Might 13.
The president despatched directions to the minister to simply accept the hybrid resolution proposed by Fecafoot. Inside the latter, a number of sources see this intervention as a victory, the pinnacle of state ordering Narcisse Mouelle Kombi and his help Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh to present floor, we learn within the Jeune Afrique article.
A last episode which might subsequently considerably strengthen Samuel Eto’o towards the secretary common of the presidency.
The 2 males have been at odds for nearly a yr. Relations have solely develop into strained in latest months whereas the secretary common was accused of desirous to intrude within the affairs of Fecafoot, speculated to be impartial of political energy, by requesting the appliance of “excessive directions” acquired from Paul Biya. This technique of transmitting “excessive directions” from the pinnacle of state is on the coronary heart of the criticism addressed to Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, accused by his detractors of usurping the presidential workplace, notes Jeune Afrique.
Finally, Paul Biya’s private intervention within the battle between Fecafoot and the federal government might be thought-about a victory for Samuel Eto’o and for Fecafoot. Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless too early to know whether or not this battle will come to an finish or whether or not it can merely remodel into one other format.
To be continued…
