Football analysts, observers and the media may have exhausted all possible reasons why Cameroon fell. But it is hard to believe that some other thing did not go wrong in Durban.
It may be needless to go back to the rambling performance of French man Paul Le Guen or the tactless play exhibited by the lions, all of which, however, constituted in dashing the hopes of an entire people.
Less talk has been raised about team management and that is where I will not want to go.
Last January in Angola, while Cameroon was mourning the disgraceful exit of her lions, sources very familiar with the team informed that Yves Colleu, Le Guen’s assistant had turned the team base in Lubango into a brothel. Sneaking in with free women and even conflicting with irate players over their lingerie.
He reportedly was cautioned after that dismal failure but it’s no news that old habits die hard. Indiscipline may have contributed to the Lions’ snappy and tasteless campaign and when they get home, someone must be made to talk.
This sounds odd but its more true that odd.
Cameroon’s national team or the managers of Cameroonian football may have looked to more than one direction for success in this affair of 32.
People in Durban and members of the Official delegation to SA have said that our beloved African country got to South Africa with more than one magician.
Yes, You may not believe in voodoo or the black arts but those guys who thought we had to win not minding the means went to South Africa with “wizards.”
And their job was simple-make us win.
I rest my case.
