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Cameroun - 09 January 2007 – Cameroun and Barcelona striker, Samuel Eto’o
Fils, who sustained a serious right knee injury during his club’s European
cup game against Werder Bremen of Germany, last year, is set start normal
training on 14 January 2007 with Barcelona.
Reports from Spain indicated that Eto’o left Spain for Cameroun during the
New Year holidays to join his teammate, Pierre Wome, who missed a penalty
during the Indomitable Lions’ last world cup qualifier against Egypt in
Yaoundé.
Both paid a courtesy visit to Augustin Edjoa, Minister of Sports and
Education in Cameroun.
Speaking to the media after the visit, Eto’o said the accident that put
him out of the game for over three months was one bad experience he would
not forget easily.
He was disappointed also when Barcelona was defeated at the World club
championship final match in Japan last December.
Eto’o, whose first test after surgery showed that he would be out of the
game for five months, praised Doctor Ramon Cugat in Spain who, according
to him, worked hard for his quick recovery, which has taken less than the
predicted time.
“I am more determined and strong like “Rocky Balboa”. God’s time is the
best just because Barcelona is still in the Champions’ league; we still
have a chance to win the league again, though we are in second position
with three points’ difference to Sevilla but we have a game in hand.”
Eto’o, 25, won the first cap for Indomitable Lions of Cameroun the very
day preceding his 16th birthday in a friendly with Costa Rica.
A product of the Kadji Fotso Academy in Cameroun, the reigning three times
African Footballer of the year who moved to Real Madrid in July 1997,
featured for his country in the 1998 World cup in France where he played
as a substitute in a match against Italy.
He was later incorporated into the Real Madrid squad in the 1998 and 1999
season.
Eto’o was later loaned out to Real Mallorca in August 2000.
He scored his first international goal in Ghana when Cameroun won her
third Africa Cup of Nations in the Ghana/Nigeria 2000 final tournament.
The same year, he won Olympic Gold at Sydney with Cameroun’s under 23 side
in a post match penalty shoot out triumph over Spain.
The Camerounians, with Eto’o, retained the Nations Cup in Mali in 2002.
Further, he scored two goals as Mallorca won Spain’s Kings cup final
against Recreativo club.
He played also in the confederation cup final, only to lose to France in
the grande finale, after scoring the only goal to inflict the first ever
painful defeat on Brazil, from an African national team, in a group game.
Before then, in 15 matches with African teams, no national team had ever
defeated the Samba boys. GRi…/
Source - Daily Guide
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