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Carlos Queiroz Samuel Eto\u2019o<\/strong><\/p>\n Egypt manager Carlos Queiroz said that Cameroon federation president Samuel Eto\u2019o was out of line with his comments that urged the Africa Cup of Nations hosts to prepare for \u201cwar\u201d against their semifinal opponents ahead of yesterday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n The two teams will square off at the Olembe Stadium \u2014 only 10 days after eight people lost their lives and 38 were injured, seven seriously, during a stampede outside of the venue ahead of Cameroon\u2019s last-16 win over Comoros.<\/p>\n In a video shared by the team\u2019s media outlet FECAFOOT TV following Cameroon\u2019s 2-0 quarterfinal victory over Gambia, Eto\u2019o is shown speaking to the squad ahead of the semifinal as they look to reach the tournament showpiece for the first time since 2017.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have one objective, our next [game], it\u2019s Thursday,\u201d Eto\u2019o said. \u201cEverything you\u2019ve done, you need to capitalise on it. Prepare yours, because it will be a war, my guys, a war.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s how you have to get fired up for this one \u2014 a war.\u201d<\/p>\n Eto\u2019o won two AFCON trophies and an Olympic gold medal with the Indomitable Lions, as well as several club titles with Barcelona.<\/p>\n Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Queiroz said the comments by Eto\u2019o star were \u201cunfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an unfortunate comment and a very bad message to the people of Cameroon,\u201d Queiroz said. \u201cI think he forgot that Cameroonian people died at the stadium several days ago, and so making this declaration of war before one game shows that he learned nothing from his time in professional football.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a very, very unfortunate comment, because football is not about war, it\u2019s about celebration, joy and happiness.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are going to answer to war with football, we\u2019re going to answer football with joy,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe\u2019re here to please the people, not to make people die, but to give them fun and some joy.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carlos Queiroz Samuel Eto\u2019o Egypt manager Carlos Queiroz said that Cameroon federation president Samuel Eto\u2019o was out of line with his comments that urged the Africa Cup of Nations hosts to prepare for \u201cwar\u201d against their semifinal opponents ahead of yesterday\u2019s meeting. The two teams will square off at the Olembe Stadium \u2014 only 10 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":976168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3215,1246,4069,2316],"class_list":["post-976167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-blasts","tag-egypt","tag-etoo","tag-manager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976167","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=976167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}