The Cameroonian government asked Inter to return Onana to the national team

The rivalry of André Onana with Rigobert Song and Samuel Eto’o, coach and president of the Cameroon Football Federation respectively, during the Qatar 2022 World Cup it has become a matter of State in the African country.

The confrontation has reached the highest political arena to the point that the government of Yaoundé is pulling the strings to Onana is part of the Cameroonian team again after he announced his withdrawal on December 23. to that effect the Sports Minister, Narcisse Mouelle Kombi, have sent a letter to Inter, the club the goalkeeper is a member of, officially requesting that they make the player available to the ‘relentless lions’.

An unusual letter for coming from the Government of a country and about a strictly sporting issue, but also for some defects, as it was sent to Corso Vittorio Emanuele and not to Viale della Liberazione, where the headquarters of Inter moved for a while. time time

It’s also strange that the letter was sent to Inter because it didn’t stop it Onana arrived to Cameroon’s calls, but it was the goalkeeper’s own decision after the tensions of the past months and which erupted at the World Cup in Qatar when he decided to leave the team’s concentration before the second game against Serbia due to differences in Song of Rigobert about playing style.

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Minister Kombi, in his letter to Steven Zhang, The president of Inter explained that “André’s statement about his retirement, published in a press release, is the result of an unfortunate misunderstanding with the coaching staff, given that the player has reaffirmed his patriotism attachment to Cameroon and the Indomitable Lions.” .

“We kindly ask you to allow this talented goalkeeper, who until now has been one of the strengths of this team, to satisfy his desire to continue representing his country and making millions of his countrymen dream,” end of the letter.

Eto’o brought him to Barça

We will have to see how this conflict evolves. It hurts for Onana to break up so badly Samuel Eto’o, advisor and friend before becoming president of the Federation since he arrived at FC Barcelona’s youth academy by the former striker’s Foundation team.

Indeed it is Eto’o himself decided on the final dismissal of Onana of concentration during the World Cup in Qatar after the goalkeeper had a disagreement with the coach Rigobert Sing on his view of the game. Onana, who played in the first game in Qatar (1-0 loss to Switzerland), prefers to control the ball with his feet, as he learned at La Masia as a Barça player, and the coach favors long shots .