2024-10-01 23:01:28
For the next 6 months, the former Indomitable Lions striker who became president of the Cameroon Football Federation will not be allowed to attend the national football team matches.
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee made the decision on Monday 30 September.
He “allowed the President of the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT), Samuel Eto’o, to be banned for six months from attending selected Cameroon representative matches”, we can read in a press release from the FIFA Legal Affairs body.
At the moment, the BBC is unable to say what the former captain of the Cameroon national football team was actually accused of.
But FIFA points out that the “sanction was imposed as part of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup round of 16 match between Brazil and Cameroon played in Bogotá, Colombia on September 11, 2024”.
We remember that the Cameroon women’s national team under 20 played in the last World Cup in their category, and they stopped in the round of 16, Brazil stopped, with a score of 1 goal against 3 .
The ban imposed on Mr. Eto’o, FIFA said, prevents him from attending men’s and women’s matches involving FECAFOOT teams of all categories and age groups.
In other words, Samuel Eto’o will not be able to be at the stadium, for example, during the 3rd and 4th day of the African Cup of Nations qualifiers that will pit Cameroon and Kenya against each other.
The president of the Cameroon football federation was informed today, the date the sanction will come into effect, we learn from the press release.
At the moment, Samuel Eto’o has no response to this decision from FIFA.
Trouble with CAF
Last July, the governing body of African football, CAF, sentenced Samuel Eto’o, the president of the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot), to a fine of 200,000 dollars (about 121,208,600 CFA francs) for an ethical violation, but did not find it’s enough. evidence to pursue a charge related to match allegations.
The Confederation of African Football (Caf) opened an investigation into Eto’o’s conduct in August last year after “receiving written statements from several interested parties in Cameroonian football”.
A disciplinary panel found that the four-time African Footballer of the Year breached Caf’s “principles of ethics, integrity and sportsmanship” by signing an ambassador contract for betting company 1XBET.
Eto’o’s lawyers said they would appeal the verdict.
At the BBC
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