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United For The Lions’ Cause (03.09.2009)
Nkendem FORBINAKE
Our colleagues of the Sports Desk rightly call it a do-or-die battle in Libreville next Saturday. And rightly so; because the football hierarchy, not only in the Central African Sub-region, but on the entire African continent, is being challenged by Cameroon’s embarrassing last-position group rating. It’s last position on the Group? Qualifying Group A cluster makes it very difficult to imagine its qualification for the 2010 World Cup tournament in South Africa and, to a lesser extent, its presence at the 2010 African Cup of Nations in Angola.
This scandalous performance is giving sleepless nights to football administrators the players and the nation as a whole.
Good Auspices
The government reshuffle of last June 30, 2009 seems to have brought good auspices to the national football squad. On taking over the mantle of the Ministry of Physical Education, the new Minister Michel Zoah quickly made amends with the Cameroon Football Federation, ending years of incomprehension, often blamed for the poor performance of the national football team for the years during which the Ministry seemed to be eyeball-to-eyeball with the federation, leading to poor results.
The first results of this new-found Ministry-FECAFOOT entente came with the designation of Paul Le Guen last month as the National Coach; a
decision accepted across the broadest spectrum of football stakeholders involving policy-makers, technicians, players and, even, spectators.
In this new synergy of sorts, the public authorities have not reneged in their efforts to ensure that all that is necessary for the Indomitable Lions to roar and obtain good results has been done.
Experts of the Ministry of Sports and Physical Education resume this new-found posture simply “as an atmosphere of thorough serenity” which, in our understanding, indicates clearly that everything has been done to ensure that the Indomitable Lions tackle the match of next Saturday in Libreville in a most favourable motivating environment. Proof of its new-found cohesion is the easy defeat over Austria (2-0) two weeks ago. Of no less importance is the recruitment of a coach (Paul Le Guen) whose respect is unchallengeable and who has full authority over players as well as enjoys the respect of players across the board as well as the freehand he enjoys in selecting who he wants for what position or at what time in the team.
With this new confidence-denerating posture of the Indomitable Lions, the common desire is to see all Cameroonians mobilized behind the new squad so that the team can, once again, continue to deliver. And that the objective of participating in the SA World Cup next year becomes a reality.
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