Cameroon soccer extensive Samuel Eto’o became banned by FIFA on Monday from attending any national team games for six months.
Eto’o, who has been president of the Cameroon soccer federation since 2021, confronted two charges from an incident at the Below-20 Females’s World Cup in Colombia on 11th of September.
FIFA did now now not specify tiny print of what came about at the spherical of 16 sport that Brazil received in opposition to Cameroon 3-1 after extra time.
Eto’o became judged to private damaged disciplinary solutions bearing on to “offensive behavior and violations of the foundations of dazzling play” and misconduct of officials, FIFA talked about.
“The ban imposed on Mr. Eto’o prevents him from attending males’s and ladies folk’s suits exciting (Cameroon) teams of all classes and age groups,” FIFA talked about in an announcement.
That length by March entails males’s national team games in qualifying groups for the 2026 World Cup and 2025 Africa Cup of International locations.
The 43-12 months-ragged Eto’o performed for Cameroon at four World Cups from 1998 to 2014, missing most efficient the 2006 edition, and scored a checklist 56 targets for the Indomitable Lions. He performed in two Africa Cup of International locations title-a hit teams, in 2000 and 2002.
He received three Champions League titles, collectively with attend to attend in 2009 with Barcelona and 2010 with Inter Milan, in a storied occupation as one of soccer’s high forwards.