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Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Killing Soccer in Cameroon - An Investigative Report

Chief Bisong Etahoben and Franklin Sone Bayen [ Culled from "Killing Soccer in Africa" - FAIR Dossier|September 2010 pp. 7-8]

"Mobile phone company MTN pumped in $600,000 of an $800,000 project to renovate a number of stadiums. The other $200,000 was to come from Fecafoot, but instead, $146,000 ended up in the pockets of the then sports minister... The work never happened. The $600,000 is unaccounted for."

Cameroon took part in the World Cup for the sixth time this year making it the only African country to have attained such a feat. It participated in the first tournament in 1982, missed the 1986 games but has qualified for every tournament since then, except the 2006 games. Cameroon is also one of the only three African countries to reach the quarter finals of the World Cup.

It did so in 1990. (The other countries are Senegal which has only qualified for the World Cup once, in 2002, but reached the quarter finals in that tournament. Ghana, which has qualified for the World Cup twice, reached the quarter finals in the just ended World Cup.) Cameroon was the second highest ranked African country just before the tournament. The highest ranked African country was Egypt. But despite this glossy picture,football is dying in Cameroon.

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Posted by jimbimedia on Tuesday, 26 October 2010 at 03:30 PM in Dibussi Tande, Guest Bloggers | Permalink