The cameroonian soccer star Emmanuel Kundé, part of his country’s choice of 1990 managed to become Africa’s first team to reach the quarterfinals of a World Cup, died Friday at the age of 68, according to the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecofot).
“The fecofoot was sad to receive the news of the death of the old -fashioned lion (nickname of the Cameroonian national group), Emmanuel Kunde,” He published the institution on Social Network Facebook.
“Kunde was part of the golden generation to participate in the 1990 World Cup in Italy, where Camerún became the first African country to play in the quarterfinals of a world football championship,” The organism said.
“His loss generates a huge loss for Cameroonian football”, added
Kundé played as a defense and spent most of his career in Canon Yaundé. In addition to the World Cup in Italy, he also participated in Spain in 1982where Cameroon dedicated to the competition, and part of the Cameroonian national team that He won the Africa Cup in 1984 and 1988.
He launched a penalty that decided on the final final Africa Cup against Nigeria in Casablanca and also scored a maximum penalty on dramatic defeat against England (3-2) in the historic quarterfinals of the 1990 World Cup.
After retiring as a player, Kundé became a coach, to the leader of Canon Yaundé himself and other Cameroon teams, in addition to covering several technical selection positions.
Source: La Verdad
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