Cameroon in search of a new coach

  1. Posted on Wednesday 8 July 2009 - 12:30
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    Walter Wilson Nana, AfricaNews reporter in Beau, Cameroon
    The newly appointed Minister of Sports and Physical Education in Cameroon, Michel Zoah has asked the president of the Cameroon Football Federation, FECAFOOT, to make available to him a short list of coaches competent to train the national football team also known as the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon.
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    Some names are already making the rounds; German-born Lothar Mathaeus, former captain of the German Manchafft and World Cup winner, Belgian Jean Tiessen, the current coach of the Hawks of Togo, another German-born Horst Koppel and Portuguese Arthur Jorge.

    As lobbying and counter lobbying rages on as who gets the prestigious job to be the head coach of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, information filtering from FECAFOOT circles have it that if they (FECAFOOT officials) were to make the choice, they will settle for Lothar Mathaeus.

    Some other observers hold that the candidature of Jean Tiessen for the post of a trainer for the Lions is been fanned by Cameroon’s ace footballer and Roving Ambassador, Roger Milla. Milla is noted to have put pressure on former Lions’ coach, Otto Pfister to resign, and the latter did.

    Though his name is on the short list, Jorge is remembered to have resigned from the Lions’ technical bench after he failed to make it to World Cup 2006. The Portuguese is reported to have complained that there were unnecessary interferences by some quarters in the management of the Indomitable Lions.

    Horst Koppel seems to be the ‘odd’ candidate, with nobody or an institution, coming out openly, to ‘push’ his case.

    Cameroon is determined to make it to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

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