{"id":1262507,"date":"2022-12-07T11:40:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/07\/etoo-begs-for-altercation\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:40:13","slug":"etoo-begs-for-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/07\/etoo-begs-for-altercation\/","title":{"rendered":"Eto&#8217;o Begs For Altercation &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Samuel Eto\u2019o confronts a man filming him in Qatar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon football president and former star player Samuel Eto\u2019o has apologised for being involved in a \u201cviolent altercation\u201d with a man outside a World Cup stadium yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Eto\u2019o had paused to pose for photos with fans near Stadium 974 after Brazil\u2019s 4-1 win over South Korea in the round of 16. Footage circulating on social media showed him then reacting to comments by a man holding a camera.<\/p>\n<p>The former Barcelona and Inter Milan forward was initially held back by people in his entourage then got clear and appeared to aim a kick at the man, who fell backward to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Tuesday, Eto\u2019o released a statement on Twitter and said: \u201cOn last December 5, after the Brazil-South Korea match, I had a violent altercation with a person who was probably an Algerian supporter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to apologise for losing my temper and reacting in a way that does not match my personality. I apologise to the public for this unfortunate incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pledge to continue to resist the relentless provocation and daily harassment of some Algerian supporters. Indeed, since the Cameroon-Algeria match on March 29 in Blida, I have been the target of insults and allegations of cheating without any evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Eto\u2019o confronts a man filming him in Qatar \u00a0 Cameroon football president and former star player Samuel Eto\u2019o has apologised for being involved in a \u201cviolent altercation\u201d with a man outside a World Cup stadium yesterday. Eto\u2019o had paused to pose for photos with fans near Stadium 974 after Brazil\u2019s 4-1 win over South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1262508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[13732,755,4069],"class_list":["post-1262507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-altercation","tag-begs","tag-etoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}