Samuel Etoo wins appeal to contest CAF Executive Committee elections

Samuel Eto’o Fils (C), an ex-Cameroonian footballer, is considered in some unspecified time in the future of the election of a current president of the Cameroon Football Federation (Fécafoot) on the Mont Fébé Hotel in Yaoundé on December 11, 2021. (Photograph by Daniel Beloumou Olomo / AFP)

Samuel Eto’o has successfully received his enchantment to be included within the Confederation of African Football’s (CAF) executive committee elections next week after in the beginning being disqualified.

The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled in his favour, overturning CAF’s chance to exclude him from the contest.

Eto’o, who serves because the president of the Cameroon Football Federation, became as soon as barred from the elections in January by CAF’s governance committee.

Then yet again, after presenting his case, CAS ruled that he must be reinstated as a candidate for the March 12 elections in Cairo.

In its statement, CAS illustrious that it stumbled on sufficient grounds to overturn CAF’s chance, nonetheless left the closing evaluation of candidates to the CAF Standard Assembly.

No reasons were in the beginning given for Eto’o’s exclusion, nonetheless he previously confronted suspensions from both FIFA and CAF. FIFA banned him for six months in 2024 for allegedly abusing match officers, while CAF sanctioned him over an ambassadorial operate with a making a bet firm, although the ban became as soon as later lifted.

Meanwhile, CAF has yet to publish the closing list of candidates for the elections, although its president, Patrice Motsepe, is working unopposed for a second time duration.