FIFA is under pressure to remove Cameroon FA (FECAFOOT) president Samuel Eto’o from his role after a group of the country’s football officials have called on the organisation to take action against the former striker. The group — which includes Pierre Semengue, President of the Professional Football League of Cameroon and Henry Njalla Quan Junior, a former FECAFOOT vice-president — have written a letter jointly addressing FIFA President Gianni Infantino and Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Patrice Motsepe, questioning how he has been allowed to continue “to...
is under pressure to remove Cameroon FA president Samuel Eto’o from his role after a group of the country’s football officials have called on the organisation to take action against the former striker.Cameroon
That no further action has yet been taken, the letter adds, “lies at the very heart of football’s issues of integrity, ethics and fair play”. “Not a word has been heard from FIFA,” the letter reads, “despite numerous complaints and reminders from Cameroonian football actors. “The sad reality of this two-speed management of almost identical situations is that Africa remains a kind of enclave where you can take liberties with the ethics and exemplarity that sports leaders should embody,” the letter says.remaining silent when the president of a European football federation is suspected of match-fixing, with audio recordings to back it up?
The letter says “the clear provisions of article 47 of the FECAFOOT statutes” mean Eto’o should have vacated his role but that he “continues to illegally impose himself” as president of the organisation. Those statutes refer to an individual leaving the role “where the President is in a situation of incompatibility or ineligibility during his term of office”.
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