The current president of the Cameroon Football Association, Samuel Eto’o, has been embroiled in an ethical scandal in Spain.
The Spanish court ruled obligating Samuel Eto’o to pay a sum of 1,400 euros (about 22 million centimes) per month to a woman belonging to this European country. She accused him on a previous date of having given birth to a child from him, without providing for them.
The facts of the case date back to 1998, when Samuel Eto’o was wearing the uniform of the Spanish club Leganes. Based on the latest press reports on the Iberian Peninsula. She added that the girl was named “Erica de Rosario Neves”, and she is now 22 years old.
Samuel Eto’o (40 years old) has Spanish citizenship (after being original to his country of Cameroon), after playing football in this European country between 1997 and 2004, with five clubs: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Leganes, Espanyol and Mallorca.
It appears that Samuel Eto’o will not be comforted by him, after winning the Cameroon Football Association’s presidency last December. Because in addition to this moral scandal, sports figures and others from different fields in Cameroon are calling for Eto’o’s departure from the Football Association, due to the illegality of the elections , as well as his involvement in corruption cases .
This accumulated bad news comes at a time when it is assumed that Samuel Eto’o and his Cameroon Football Association are preparing for the two matches of the “Unruly Lions” team against Algeria, in late March, to draw the decisive and final role of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.