Cameroon News – Football

In the latest Cameroon news, the world’s highest paid footballer, Samuel Eto’o, was unable to play against the Nzalang Nacional (Equatorial Guinea) during the friendly on Tuesday October 11 in Malabo due to injury.

International football player, Samuel Eto’o has been sidelined for the Guinea Equatorial v Cameroon friendly scheduled for Tuesday October 11 in Malabo, following an injury he picked up during the Indomitable Lions’ final African Cup of Nations qualifier against DR Congo in Kinshasa on Friday.

The-Indomitable-Lions, who failed to reach the finals of the 2012 Afcon, now look ahead to the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, which begin in eight months and the 2013 Afcon, but it is still unclear whether coach Javier Clemente will stay on in his position. The Football Federation has denied speaking with the former French coach Raymond Domenech as a potential replacement for the Spaniard.

Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik commits to Cameroon

In more football news, Rennes defender Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik has pledged his international allegiance to Cameroon.

The 22 year old football player, who was born in France, turned down a call-up to the French squad, Les Bleus’ U-21 side, last year as he sought after to qualifying for the country where both his parents were born. He said that he has chosen Cameroon and there will be no going back and that he has given his word to the Cameroonian Federation.

He stated that Laurent Blanc would not change the squad who qualified for UEFA EURO 2012. He continued saying that “in Cameroon there is a real desire to see me play in the green shirt, a desire I have never felt in France”.

About the the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon

The national football team, nicknamed Les Lions Indomptables or the Indomitable Lions, is run by the Fédération Camerounaise de Football and is Africa’s most successful side in FIFA world cup; having qualified for the FIFA World Cup six times, which happens to be more than any other African nation. The Cameroon football team was the first football team from Africa to reach the quarter-final of a World Cup tournament. The 1990 World Cup is remembered most of all for the emergence of African football and for the Indomitable Lions who stole the hearts of football fans around the globe with their enigmatic and artistic approach to football. Samuel Eto’o is the current captain of The Cameroon football team.