The Cameroon Soccer Federation (Fecafoot) has expressed its “nice astonishment” over Marc Brys’ appointment as the boys’s nationwide workforce head coach by the nation’s sports activities ministry.
The 61-year-old Belgian, who beforehand managed OH Leuven, has been chosen to succeed the previous Liverpool and West Ham United defender Rigobert Track, whose deal wasn’t renewed following the conclusion of this yr’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).
Nonetheless, Fecafoot mentioned they had been shocked on the appointment of Brys, stating that the choice was made unilaterally.
A press release learn: “The Cameroon Soccer Federation has realized, similtaneously all Cameroonians, of the appointment to positions of accountability throughout the males’s senior nationwide choice.
“Fecafoot expresses its nice astonishment at this act, which runs counter to the phrases of Decree No. 2014/384 of 26 September 2014 on the organisation and functioning of nationwide soccer groups.
“This unilateral resolution comes on the very second when Fecafoot has agreed to hold out the very excessive directions of the President of the Republic by offering its frank collaboration with a view to reaching appeasement useful to the way forward for our beloved Indomitable Lions.
“Fecafoot intends to make clear this regrettable scenario and can talk immediately on the response it intends to provide.”
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The sports activities ministry introduced that Brys would obtain help from Joachim Mununga and Giannis Xilouris, though the length of their contracts was not disclosed. Moreover, the previous Cameroon striker Francois Omam-Biyik, who participated in three World Cups, was among the many expanded technical, medical, and administrative employees appointed.
Samuel Eto’o, the previous Barcelona, Inter Milan and Chelsea ahead, has been the president of Fecafoot since 2021.
The 43-year-old is at present being investigated by the Confederation of African Soccer (CAF) relating to wide-ranging accusations, together with that he and shut aides had been concerned in match-fixing, abuse of energy, bodily threats, inciting violence and spreading false info in Cameroon. Eto’o has beforehand denied these claims.
Track, in the meantime, first took cost of Cameroon in 2022 and just lately led them to the final 16 at AFCON, finally being knocked out of the competitors by eventual finalists Nigeria.
Following his retirement in 2010, Track managed Cameroon’s Underneath-23s from 2018 to 2022, earlier than succeeding Toni Conceicao as the boys’s nationwide workforce head coach.
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