Copiously destroyed by Marc Brys last August, Samuel Eto’o, the president of the Cameroonian Football Federation (Fecafoot) finally responded to the coach.
As time passed, Eto’o seemed to have fallen silent forever. Surprising, especially since the former champion has accustomed his people to having the last word. Brought down in flames in mid-August by Marc Brys in the Belgian daily newspaper The Last Hourthe star had in fact never retaliated. Only coaches Cameroonianwith whom the relationship is not always good, as well as his friend and ex-coach Rigobert Song, had reframed the Belgian bold for his outrage to the national monument.
But the Douala native saved his reply for later. Perhaps to strike when the technician least expected it. So the time has come! Whoever minimizes through the press is despised in the press, they say? In any case, in a podcast for RFI to whom he had confided the last time at the end of February, to announce the departure of Rigobert Song from the bench of the Indomitable Lions, Eto’o pointedly disdained the former coach of Saint-Trond, unknown to the general public until his appointment as head of the national team.
“If I am going to respond to an employee”, Eto’o condescending towards Brys
In a sequence centered excessively on the I, the forty-year-old simply snubbed the ex-police inspector whom he accuses of taking advantage of his celebrity to benefit from the spotlight.
“If I respond to an employee, you will see that I will lose my level. I will stay at my level of president, but just a little digression, I do not think that all these people who are speaking, if they were not employees of the Cameroon Football Federation or of the State of Cameroon through the Federation , you would talk about these people (laughs). But I think that when you mention the name of Samuel Eto’o, people recognize themselves in Samuel Eto’o and even plan to become a Samuel Eto’o. That means that, somewhere, I achieved something. »
Brys mentioned in the third person
Then he adds another layer, his ego inflated:
« […] When you say that we (Marc Brys, editor’s note) singled me out, I would say that people are giving themselves visibility through me, because if you don’t talk about Samuel Eto’o, we don’t even know who ‘where you came out. (…) Before the arrival of these people, I did not know them and I have no problems with them. (…) What we must put above everything else are the common objectives that we have. I have no problem with anyone, I have a mission and I must fulfill it, period. »
In short, Eto’o in its quintessence. Marc Brys will no doubt appreciate it.
