{"id":16203,"date":"2011-12-18T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/15-game-cameroon-ban-for-etoo\/"},"modified":"2011-12-18T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T14:00:07","slug":"15-game-cameroon-ban-for-etoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/18\/15-game-cameroon-ban-for-etoo\/","title":{"rendered":"15-game Cameroon ban for Eto&#8217;o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"67.973278520041\"><span><span>By Leocadia Bongben<\/span><br \/><span>BBC Sport, Yaounde<\/span><\/span> <span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57385000\/jpg\/_57385489_etoo1.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Samuel Eto'o\" \/> Eto&#8217;o is a four-time African Football of the Year<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Samuel Eto&#8217;o has been banned for 15 matches by the Cameroonian Football Federation (Fecafoot) for his role in a players&#8217; strike.<\/p>\n<p>The strike followed a row over bonuses after a tournament in Morocco in November and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/15736421.stm\">led to the cancellation of a friendly against Algeria.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cameroon captain, 30, has 10 days to appeal against the ban.<\/p>\n<p>Vice-captain Enoh Eyong received a two-match ban, while Tottenham&#8217;s Benoit Assou-Ekotto was fined $1,980 (\u00a31,276).<\/p>\n<p>The decision was published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fecafootonline.com\/\">federation&#8217;s website<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The federation said Eto&#8217;o was banned for &#8220;violating the internal regulations of the national team relating to loyalty and obligation of participating in a match&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Born:<\/strong> Nkon, Cameroon, 10 March, 1981<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cameroon caps:<\/strong> 109<\/li>\n<li><strong>International goals:<\/strong> 54<\/li>\n<li><strong>International honours:<\/strong> African Cup of Nations (2000, 2002), LG Cup (2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Clubs:<\/strong> Real Madrid, Leganes (loan), Espanyol (loan), Mallorca, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Anzhi Makhachkala.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cameroon have failed to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations finals, so the first games Eto&#8217;o will miss are the Indomitable Lions&#8217; opening games in qualifying for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2014 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon begin their bid to reach the 2013 Nations Cup finals against Guinea Bissau on 29 February, with the return leg of the tie on 17 June.<\/p>\n<p>They start their quest to reach the 2014 World Cup in Brazil with a match on 1 June against DR Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Eto&#8217;o is the most decorated player in African history having won the European Champions League three times during his time at Barcelona and Inter Milan.<\/p>\n<p>He has been named African Footballer of the Year four times and won an Olympic gold medal with Cameroon in 2000 and the Africa Cup of Nations in 2000 and 2002.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/14664378.stm\">Eto&#8217;o moved to Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala in August 2011<\/a>, becoming one of the best paid sportsmen in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Leocadia Bongben BBC Sport, Yaounde Eto&#8217;o is a four-time African Football of the Year Samuel Eto&#8217;o has been banned for 15 matches by the Cameroonian Football Federation (Fecafoot) for his role in a players&#8217; strike. The strike followed a row over bonuses after a tournament in Morocco in November and led to the cancellation of a friendly against Algeria. The Cameroon captain, 30, has 10 days to appeal against the ban. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>15-game Cameroon ban for Eto&#039;o - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/18\/15-game-cameroon-ban-for-etoo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"15-game Cameroon ban for Eto&#039;o - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Leocadia Bongben BBC Sport, Yaounde Eto&#039;o is a four-time African Football of the Year Samuel Eto&#039;o has been banned for 15 matches by the Cameroonian Football Federation (Fecafoot) for his role in a players&#039; strike. 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