Football: the Minister of Sports responds firmly to Eto'o, Brys will be coach of Cameroon

After the Fecafoot press release and the anger of Samuel Eto'o, here is the response from the Minister of Sports of Cameroon. In a letter signed by Narcisse Mouele Kombi, Friday April 5, we learn that Marc Brys will indeed be named coach of the Indomitable Lions by the Cameroonian government, whether Fecafoot and its president like it or not. And this on a legal basis, according to the missive. 

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The Ministry of Sports and Physical Education has already taken all useful and necessary arrangements

[...]

for the entry into office of the new coach-selector, Mr. Marc Brys, and other members of the technical supervision.

 » The message has the merit of being clear. In a firm letter, dated this Friday, April 5 and signed by the

Cameroonian

Minister of Sports , Narcisse Mouelle Kombi, the government counterattacks.

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Earlier in the week, Samuel Eto'o himself sent a letter to the ministry, pointing out the illegality of the choice of the new coach of the Indomitable Lions by the Cameroonian government. The president of the Cameroonian Football Federation (Fecafoot) believes that, according to the law, it is up to his institution to decide the next profile which will take place on the bench of the first team, after Rigobert Song was dismissed following the failure of the CAN in Ivory Coast. A poor performance that the minister does not fail to highlight, evoking the “

particularly mediocre results of the Indomitable Lions

”.

A legal basis for the appointment of Marc Brys? 

But the heart of the mail is elsewhere. Because first of all, Narcisse Mouelle Kombi recalls that in the past, Clarence Seedorf, Antonio Conceiçao and Rigobert Song were appointed by the same mechanism which resulted in the choice of Marc Brys, namely “ 

article 9 of the MINSEP-FECAFOOT Convention

 ”, and this, without “ 

it causing the slightest controversy

 ”. Article 9 in which it is indicated that “ 

the members of the management structures of the national football teams are recruited either on the basis of a contract signed with the president of the Cameroonian Football Federation, after compulsory advice from the Minister responsible for Sports , or on the basis of provision to the State.

 »

A process which was therefore completely respected in the eyes of the government. A detailed approach in the letter, from the creation of a recruitment team to the sifting of the applications received, three of which would have come from Fecafoot itself. The federation would therefore have been fully informed of the recruitment in progress. The problem is that the applications presented would have “

each had exorbitant salary expectations

”, between 1.5 million and 2.5 million euros per year, excluding bonuses, again according to the missive. 

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The most important thing is to stick together to form a chain of sacred union around our national selection

 ,” concludes the letter. Not sure that its content is likely to appease Samuel Eto'o, nor to put him in a good position to fraternize with the Ministry of Sports, which he has the impression is completely undermining his authority. 

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