Disturbing revelations level to the alleged involvement of the president of Fécafoot, Samuel Eto’o, in match-fixing, after he promised to lift a membership, nevertheless badly embarked, within the first division.
Samuel Eto’o is in turmoil. A brand new episode has certainly been added to the sequence of controversies surrounding the president of Fécafoot these days. Only some days after the resounding declarations of its former vice-president, Njalla Quan, accusing him of getting dismissed André Onana from the nationwide group, the Cameroonian soccer boss finds himself once more within the limelight. This time he’s suspected of being concerned in match fixing.
That is remarkable and remarkable in your complete historical past of Cameroonian soccer. However ! An audio recording, broadly circulated on social networks since Tuesday, July 18, 2023, options Samuel Eto’o throughout a phone dialog with the president of the native second division membership, Opopo, higher generally known as Victoria United.
When Eto’o decides {that a} membership will go as much as D1
On this change, which might date from January 2023, we hear Samuel Eto’o decide to elevating the membership to the subsequent division, declaring: ” Opopo should go as much as the primary division. It’s our goal (…) It’s our Federation. We’re 4 ; you and a pair of different individuals. Victoria United will go up“. A number of months later, the membership, which was on the backside of the desk, was successfully promoted after the Stade de Bertoua, ranked second within the championship, was declared a common withdrawal by the Fecafoot. As well as, a number of referees have been suspended by the Yaoundé-based physique.
These revelations increase questions concerning the doable affect of Samuel Eto’o within the choice of the outcomes of the matches, thus diverting the result of the conferences from their actual playground, to determine them within the workplaces of FECAFOOT. Captain Feutcheu, president of Djiko FC and resigning member of the Fécafoot Govt Committee, confirms these considerations: “ What made me resign was President Eto’o Fils’ response. I obtained it on the telephone […] and he stated, “I can downgrade any group I would like” “.
Eto’o defends himself by sinking
Confronted with accusations of alleged match-fixing that weigh towards him, Samuel Eto’o has discovered a technique to justify himself… clumsily. “In a dialog during which I had protected the president of Opopo who invests his cash and needed to stop soccer as a result of a few of us should not doing our job, I begged and referred to as the president of the Affiliation of Referees, Mr. Fokou, saying to him: “beware! This gentleman places some huge cash into soccer and we can not ship referees to kill this man who solely needs one factor, to have the most effective groups in our championship”“. This assertion means that Eto’o gave directions to favor the promotion of the Opopo membership from Victoria United to the primary division.
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