Eto’o intercepted: scandal in Cameroon

Since he became president of the Cameroonian football federation, Samuel Eto’o has not found peace. First the national team shirt deal, with the unilateral breaking of the contract with Le Coq to move to One Sport just before the World Cup. Then the Onana case, which has come to the surface in recent days with the accusations of a former federal official who indicated him as solely responsible for the goalkeeper’s removal from the Indomitable Lions in Qatar.

But this time the troubles risk costing him dearly. A local site, Camfoot (which, it must be said, has been waging war against him for some time), has in fact published the interception of a phone call last January between the former Nerazzurri player and Valentine Gwain known as “Bobiddyil”, president of Victoria Limbé, a second division, promoted to Elite 1 in the last season, in which Eto’o promises his friend to help them climb to the top flight.

“bring your women too”

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“You told me you would accompany me on my journey,” says Gwain, lamenting a match lost to an unfavorable refereeing. “You have to be calm – the former pichichi replies – Appeal, we’ll give you back the three points and suspend the referee. Just give me time to get back to Cameroon. Then come to my office, you can stop for a couple of days, bring your women too.” “The problem is Foukou – continues Gwain – the president of the refereeing commission. He sent the son of the founder of Tonnerre (the Yaoundé club where George Weah also played, ed.) to direct our match against them. But it seems possible to you ?”. “No, it’s not possible. Our club must rise to the first division, that’s our goal – replies Eto’o with the phrase that more than any other now I risk getting him into trouble – But you have to give me a hand, you can’t make too much noise, you have to stay calm. I owe it to you and to our other two friends if I became president of the federation.” Heavy words that surely open a complicated chapter whose end has yet to be written.