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Samuel Etoó in national team action |
Eto’o is here this week to play for the national team against DR Congo. However Song, like some other prominent players, is not here having allegedly fallen out of favour with Eto’o (who isn’t the manager but I'm told he might as well be). These rumours have caused a split among those of us who think Eto'o is merely a world-class player and those who think he walks on water. I found myself in the middle of a very heated debate on the subject after midnight (and after too many beers) in a bar in Douala. When I ventured that we might be better off without Eto'o if it is true he is influencing team selection like this, I was told that my belongings would be at the airport in the morning and I would be deported for my views!
My plan to travel to see the game in the capital Yaounde was dashed by the sudden late decision to switch the match to Garoua in the north of the country. Despite Congo objecting that Garoua is in the epicentre of the current cholera epidemic and that they had already paid for their hotel accommodation in Yaounde, the African football federation (which has a Cameroonian president) backed Cameroon. So I had to settle for watching the game on tv in Douala. A dreadful Cameroon team achieved a 1-1 draw courtesy only of an embarrassing own goal by the Congolese right-back who will probably have to claim political asylum rather than return home!
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