CAMEROON

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Football is the clear number one sport in Cameroon. The national team has qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals six times (1982, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2010), and reaching the quarter-finals in Italy in 1990 was the Cameroonians best performance so far.

Cameroon's greatest success outside of Africa was winning the gold medal at the Olympic Football Tournament in Sydney in 2000, while the nation has won the African Cup of Nations four times (1984, 1988, 1998 and 2002) in sixteen appearances at the final competition.

Two coaches have had a major influence on football in Cameroon: Jean Manga Onguene, who won over 100 caps as a player, took the senior national team to the FIFA World Cup finals on four consecutive occasions, and helped the youth team secure the African Championship. Today, he heads the Goal Development Office in Yaoundé; Jean Paul Akono was the coach of the victorious Olympic team.

Cameroon has regularly produced promising players, who have ultimately played professional football in Europe. Roger Milla (in France with Valenciennes, Monaco, Bastia, and Montpellier), Thomas Nkono (with Espanol in Spain) and Joseph Antoine Bell (in France with Bordeaux and Marseille) were the most famous players in recent years, who have since given way to Samuel Eto'o, Salomon Olembe, Lauren Etame Mayer, Rigobert Song, and Gérémi Sorel Njitap.

Football in Cameroon suffered a cruel loss with the sudden death of 28-year-old international Marc Vivien Foé (whose clubs included Olympique Lyons and Manchester City). Foé collapsed during one of the semi-finals of the FIFA Confederations Cup France 2003 and later died in the stadium despite immediate attempts to resuscitate him.


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ACHIEVEMENTS

Summer Olympics (2000)
Africa Cup of Nations (1984, 1988, 2000, 2002)
African U-20 Championship (1995)
African U-17 Championship (2003)
All-Africa Games (1991, 1999, 2003, 2007)
CEMAC Cup (2003, 2005, 2008)
UNIFFAC Cup (2008)
UDEAC Championship (1984, 1986, 1989)
Afro-Asian Cup of Nations (1985)
Central African Games (1976, 1987)
African Military Cup (2006, 2008)

Africa Cup of Nations (1986, 2008)
FIFA Confederations Cup (2003)
African U-20 Championship (1981, 1993, 2009, 2011)
CEMAC Cup (2006, 2010)
UNIFFAC Cup (2011)
UDEAC Championship (1988, 1990)
World Military Cup (2007)
African Military Cup (2012)

Africa Cup of Nations (1972, 1992)
African U-20 Championship (1999)
All-Africa Games (2011)
UNAF U-23 Championship (2010)
UDEAC Championship (1985)
Francophone Games (1997)

SQUADS

2013:
- Season 2012/2013

2012:
- Season 2011/2012

2011:
- Season 2010/2011
- FIFA U-20 World Cup 2011
- CAF African U-20 Championship 2011

Nickname
Les Lions Indomptables (The Indomitable Lions)

Home Colours
Jerseys: Green
Shorts: Red
Socks: Yellow

FIFA World Cup Appearances
6 (1982, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2010)
Best Result: Quarter Finals (1990)

Africa Cup of Nations Appearances
16

FIFA Ranking
Current : 61 (as of December 2012)
Highest : 11 (Nov '06 / Jan '07 / fr. Nov '09 to Dec '09)
Lowest : 71 (October 2012)
Average : 31

Most Caps
Rigobert Song (138)

Top Scorer
Samuel Eto'o (54)