WAFCON 2022: Cameroon FA boss Eto’o sets target for Indomitable Lionesses
The President of the Cameroonian Football Federation, Samuel Eto’o has charged the country’s women national team to at least get to the semi-final of the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.
Cameroon find themselves in Group B alongside Zambia, Tunisia and Togo as they chase their first continental crown in the women’s competition.
The Indomitable Lionesses finished third in the 2018 edition in Ghana and they have reached the final on four occasions without winning.
After their 4-0 loss to France in a friendly fixture on Sunday, Eto’o encouraged the Lionesses as ‘the best in Africa’ and he wants them to get to the last-four stage in Morocco, for a chance to qualify for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in New Zealand and Australia.
“Sincerely, if I tell you that I was awaiting a victory for us, I would be lying. You’ll play many matches like this,” Eto’o told the media.
“For me, you’re the best in Africa, but that’s not the dream I have for you. It is here that I await you because in Africa we will be in at least the semi-finals. The real challenge is here, it’s the next World Cup,” added the former Indomitable Lions captain.
“And like I was telling the representative of the president of French Football Federation; I wish that we also play France in Yaounde. We will have to participate in all the big tournaments that have teams that are currently better than us.”
