Samuel Eto’oPresident of the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT), had a heated discussion this Tuesday Yaounde with the coach of the country’s national team, Belgian Marc Brys, after the former Barcelona player tried to remove representatives of the team from a meeting. Cameroonian government.
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“He is a coach because I appointed him. He’s made a lot of mistakes. Please stay at this meeting,” Eto’o told Brys in front of the journalists’ cameras, visibly angry, after the coach tried leave the meeting with government representatives.
“I am the president of the federation. And what you do is my responsibility. And don’t talk to me like that, Mr. Coach. Don’t forget it,” the ex-footballer snapped.
‘The only person who does politics Cameroon It is the president (of the country, Paul) Biya. You decide not. “I am the president of the Federation,” the former attacker shouted.
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The coach replied: ‘You’ve never been a coach’. And Eto’o replied: “I’ve been a coach.”
“For three weeks,” Brys answers allusion to the short time that the former footballer was on the bench of the Turkish team Antalyaspor.
“Yes. And I was a great player. A great player!” Eto’o added.
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“Very good, very good. Congratulations”said the coach, who shook the president’s hand in farewell and walked towards the exit door.
“If you cross the door, you never come back,” Eto’o finally said.
🎥 The exchange between Samuel Eto’o, chairman of FECAFOOT and Marc Brys, selector of the indomitable Lions. 😰🇨🇲
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During this meeting there is an altercation between Eto’o and Cyrille Tollo, advisor at MINSEP. pic.twitter.com/NOhrMjpd0o
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The controversy arose after Eto’o ordered the departure of a representative of the Ministry of SportsCameroonian Cyrille Tollo is in the middle of a dispute between the former footballer and the minister of the sector, Narcisse Mouelle Kombi.
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Brys was invited by Eto’o for a working session while Cameroon was preparing next play-offs for the World Cup.
However, several assistant coaches, also appointed by the Sports Ministry, were denied access to the building. FECAFOOT in the capital Yaoundé.
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The tensions between them they grew last April, when Kombi supposedly hired Brys without permission from FECAFOOT.
The Cameroonian team, known as the “Lionis untamable“, has won five times Africa Cup and has qualified eight times for the World Cups.
Source: El heraldo
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