Former international Samuel Eto’o will run Cameroonian football for the next four years after being elected head of the country’s FA on Saturday.
The 40-year-old former striker had announced his intention to run for the post on September 22, saying it was time to “launch the reconstruction of Cameroonian soccer”. Mr. Eto’o said that the ousted president of Fecafoot had “failed miserably”.
The four-time African Footballer of the Year defeated rival Seidou Mbombo Njoya, the fourth vice-president at the Confederation of African Football, who was elected in 2018, but his election was contested by several actors of Cameroonian soccer, and canceled in mid-January by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Seven candidates should have contested the elections, but five of them pulled out on the morning of the elections.
Among those giving up their candidacy on Saturday morning were former Cameroon internationals Maboang Kesack and Jules Denis Onana.
Eto’o will now be head of Cameroon’s FA (Fecafoot) when the country hosts the Africa Cup of Nations in January and February.
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