The former coach of the Indomitable Lions accuses the former Sports Minister to be responsible for his ejection from the national team.

Jean-Paul Akono has a grudge against the former Minister of Sports and Physical Education (MINSEP). The Cameroonian technician, gold medalist at the 2000 Olympics, said Adoum Garoua is the main person responsible for his ejection from the technical staff of the Indomitable Lions in 2013. Very ill for more than two years, deputy national technical director number 1 said to have recovered his health.

He gave an interview with Mutations of 24 February 2016. Equal to himself, the former defender of the Canon sportive de Yaoundé do not bother with diplomatic circumlocutions to say what he thinks of the former boss of Sports.
“I had made financial proposals, stating the need for a sum of 15 million CFA francs. Only, the Minister of Sports and Physical Education (Adoum Garoua Editor’s note) interrogated saying:”He will get 15 million and me, what will I get? ”.

He wrote a report to say that I had demanded 15 million or nothing. It never looked like me to ask such requirements. Never! And I believe that this minister will really deal with God because for me, it’s in the past now. All I regret is that he made me suffer. He made me sick because I could not tolerate such a lie, “recalls Jean-Paul Akono.

In the same interview, who also directed Chad’s national team rules on the recruitment of Hugo Broos, the new coach of the Indomitable Lions?
“I really have no judgment to make on him. I think those who have come to Cameroon and with whom he signed a two-year contract certainly had all the time to see this expertise.

He is the one who can get us out of the bottom of the FIFA rankings, by effectively winning matches, “he says laconically.
Akono however, regrets that leaders do not trust the Cameroonian technicians. “Generally, for black people, we say very often that the Cameroonian coaches are this they are that. Then we will look for anyone to come and lead the Lions.

Precisely because we have this bad label glued on our back. Meanwhile this is absolutely false. In most countries today, in France, you will never see another coach of the national team apart from a French.

It’s the same in Germany, Brazil, England, even here in Nigeria. But why can’t Cameroon do it? Just because people are jealous, “he slice.