Former Mt Cameroon FC Player Joins Ajax Amsterdam

By Orock Eta

Former Mount Cameroon FC midfielder, Eyong Tarkang Enoh, popularly known as Veron, has signed a two-year contract with Dutch club, Ajax Amsterdam.

Eyong left Mount Cameroon for a two-year spell at South African side, Ajax of Cape town, where he impressed so many European Soccer Managers and even won a nomination for Player of the Season in the South African Premiership.

Before signing for the Dutch side, the midfield kingpin played test matches at various clubs in Europe, spending time in countries like France, Denmark, Sweden and Israel.He would have signed for Portsmouth but according to the coach, Harry Redknapp, he was quite keen on the player, but work permit issues stalled the move.

"He won't get into the country unfortunately," Redknapp told the club's official website. "To get into England, you need to have played 75 percent of the recent games for your country and I am sure he hasn't done that."

After putting pen to paper for his new deal, the delighted Eyong told the press, "This has been my dreams ever since I was growing up in my country; that one day I shall see myself playing in Europe. I am happy that my dream has finally come true, I have signed for two years with Ajax Amsterdam and I want to use this opportunity of playing in Holland to join the Indomitable Lions."

Eyong also sung the praises of Ajax Amsterdam coach, Marco van Basten. "He is a nice and open-minded person. He was one of the best players for Holland and I hope to learn a lot from his experience as a player." He added.

Eyong Tarkang Enoh was born on March 23, 1986 in Kumba. He joined Mount Cameroon FC in 2003 from Division II club, Little Foot of Tiko. What actually facilitated his joining Mount Cameroon FC was his outstanding performances at the 2002 University Games were he emerged best player, while a student at the University of Buea.

The 22-year-old, while at Mount Cameroon FC, played with the Cameroon Cadet Lions squad.Ajax Cape Town spokesman, Shooz Mekuto, after the signing confirmed that Eyong who bossed their midfield as the anchor and was largely responsible for the club show for the Premiership last season will be lost to local football.

"He is a class player," said Mekuto, "I was not surprised that he featured among the finalists in the Footballer of the Year awards, let alone his new contract." He leaves with our blessings and we wish him the best of luck in his new adventure." Mekuto blessed Eyong.

Comments

[rexon]

This is one of my happiest moments as a Southern Cameroonian. To see Southern Cameroonian kids moving to high level positions in Europe makes me highly excited and leaves me with nothing but hope. Our people should not allow their talents to be destroyed as a result of the occupation of our land. We should take advantage of the few opportunity we have. If we had our freedom, we could have been able to produce many more players like Eyong. Even in Athletics, we could produced an Usain Bolt. We have alot of talent. University of Buea have in its few years of existance have produced a significant number of practitioners and academics that have gone to achieve great things in their respective professions. Go to imperial College, Newcastle University, etc you will meet struggling Cameroonian kids who have achieved great things after working their way up the very hard way. In Glasgow University, a UB graduate came out as the best in the MSc in Finance program scoring A's in all his courses and i was very happy. It is thesame in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Germany. Our people are moving up, greatly. Lets keep working, hard of course as we are still under occupation and cannot manage our affairs properly.

[Pride]

It is with great joy that I learnt of such a wonderful news of Mr. Eyong Enoh's "Veron" signing to Ajax of Amsterdam. As one of the brightest and upcoming ( though established) footballers of the Southwest province, we all, do hope and pray that the wish u echoed of playing with the national team finally comes to fruition. It is in our best interest that u act as a full ambassador to the entire english speaking population of this country and to some extend fulfil the aspiration of the entire nation by representing ur people ,thereby, satisfying arguably by merit the government watchword of 'regional balance'. U will find urself under undue pressure as we all look upon you, atleast, as the lone anglophone in the 2010 world cup squad. I must admit, that, the entire anglophone Cameroon is behind you from the response and feeling I get from the motor parks, bars , idle spots around Fako when this great news was aired over the BBC, CNN and local media , most specifically print media here in Anglophone Cameroon.

We all wish you well and do accept special greetings from ur fans back home here in cameroon and most spefically here in Fako.

"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice." Albert Einstein

[UnitedstatesofAfrica]

Rexon, you are still preaching a gospel that has fallen on deaf ears? I di sorry you

Didn't you boast of being a PH.D student at some obscure university somewhere in the suburbs of Great Britain? your write-up does not read like something written by a PH.D student...it is marred with childishness and void of any depth whatsover. It sounds like something a child would write...it is, in fact, enormously laughable. I am chuckling at this very instant.

I like your dedication though, I will give you that.

[guy]

Hi my good fellows, I'm a cameroonian like you, my brothers but francophone, so i apologise myself for the "fautes". I'm watching a football match and what I see a cameroonian. Eyong Enoh. I'm so pride to se a brother that I go on the net to get more informations about him. And i saw a fellow cameroonian say that he is under occupation !!! Come on men you're a cameroonian, we don't care about where you are from, we don't care if geremi is bamileke, Song bassa and so on...
We are one country CAMEROON let show to the our greatness. And as long as i can remember Tataw etaw was our great capitain in the earlies 90 and no one came to say that he was a bad one because he was our capitain PERIOD.

So let stand up my friends and no more stuff like that.

[Mustafa Ozhan]

Eyong also played for a very good club in Northern Cyprus.Why does he not mention that.

[Mustafa Ozhan]

Eyong is one of the best footballers that have come to Northern Cyprus.He played for the best team in Cyprus.Thats Magusa Turk gucu.That year we became champions also there was Jordan aswell i think he also is from Cameroon.But we also have gat players which are better then the players on the greek sidwe or what ever they are.Anorthosis, Appoel or omonia or what ever teams they got on the greek side.they got no chance against Magusa Turk Gucu.The utracrows.