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Eko appeals to gov’t to encourage wrestling (21.01.2004)
By Ashu Manfred in Kumba
Former Cameroonian international wrestler, Crosdel Eko has appealed to the government to pay the same attention it gives to football to wrestling. In a chat with The Herald after a recess in training some youths, Eko expressed regret that, the government of Cameroon did not regard wrestling as a main sport
Paraphrasing the head of state, Paul Biya, Eko said there is no major or minor sport in Cameroon. He further regretted that most Cameroonian youths do not generate enough interest in wrestling due to the lack of emphasis put on wrestling by the government.
Eko who is South West provincial coach for wrestling and with a slant on international wrestlers painted a bleak future for wrestling as a sports in Cameroon.
Pointing out that several years after he hung up his gloves, Cameroon had not taken part in any international wrestling
bouts, Eko who currently trains some wrestlers in Kumba appealed to youths to have interest and come and train for free. He expressed the hope that his efforts would help breach the yawning gap existing between wrestling and other sports in Cameroon like football.
Eko also enumerated some difficulties, he is encountering in training the youth wrestlers, among them a lack of wrestling arena, gloves, and other related equipment.
The wrestlers are trained in a building offered by the Catholic mission in Fiango. Eko was of the opinion that the newly created South West association of wrestlers in which he is an executive member would consider his plea for assistance seriously. He also extended the same appeal to the ministry of youth and sports and corporate bodies to help encourage and enhance wrestling in the country.
Eko’s last appeal was for the state to officially invite him
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