The former coach of Cameroon’s Indomitable Lions Philippe Redon has died at the age of 69.

The information was made public by his boyhood club Stade Rennais were he was also a member of staff for the French outfit.

Philippe Redon took charge of Cameroon between 1991 and 1992. He drew goalless at home during his first game in charge against Mali on October 1990 and reignited the Lions winning spark during the return leg game securing his first win (2-0) in emphatic fashion.

The former French footballer guided the five time African champions to the semi final of the 1992 African Cup of Nations in Senegal.

Philippe Redon also coached Liberia in 2000. He has also had spells in club football with RC Lens and US Creteil.

Philippe Redon holds a pharmacy diploma and a DEPF (Professional Football Coaching Diploma), and has also worked as a FIFA instructor

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The Cameroonian football body disclosed the federation will be providing help for teams in the country amid the pandemic

The Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) has announced plans to provide special support for domestic clubs in combating the coronavirus pandemic.

In a statement on Friday, Benjamin Didier Banlock, secretary-general of the federation, said they are keen to cushion the impact of the scourge.

Since the confirmation of its first case in March, Cameroon has recorded more than 1000 cases of the coronavirus with 22 deaths recorded, as of Saturday.

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Former Barcelona and Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o has said he will distribute supplies to 100,000 people to help support efforts to combat coronavirus in his home country.

Eto’o runs a foundation in the country and has promised that it will be used to “share soaps, sanitisers and several food items to fifty thousand households in four cities – Douala, Buea, Yaoundé and Bafoussam.”

An additional 50,000 protective face masks will also be supplied – specifically for taxi drivers in the country.

“This is a serious humanitarian crisis and only via proper sanitisation and the distribution of health kits can we curb the coronavirus,” read a statement from the Samuel Eto’o Foundation.

Cameroon’s government continues to take measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, including closing down the central African nation’s borders and suspending all sports activities.

On 5 April, Cameroon’s health minister Manaouda Malachie reported that 650 people had tested positive with the virus. A total of 165 have recovered while there have been 17 deaths.

With Cameroon’s top and second tier football championships suspended, several players have taken to social media to plead for help amidst growing financial concerns.

Around a thousand footballers from 44 clubs of the country’s men and women’s domestic championships are also expected to benefit from the move via food items and basic necessities.

Eto’o, four-time African Player of the Year, has previously taken to his social media to give fans advice on following World Health Organisation tips on fighting coronavirus.

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African football’s governing body has taken significant measures in light of the coronavirus and has cancelled the Cameroon 2020 CHAM tournament.

The Confederation of African Football also took steps to reduce the upcoming footballing schedule in order to reduce the spread of the pandemic.

Caf also announced the decision to suspend the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifying double-header—scheduled for late March and early April—while the women’s U-20 World Cup qualifiers and the women’s Afcon 2020 qualifiers have also been postponed and will be rescheduled.

Various different national federations have also taken their own specific measures to halting the virus spread and reducing the impact on their populations by limiting the transport—and possible transfer—that accompanies with sports gatherings.

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The city of Douala in Cameroon will be the hosting territory for the CAF Champions League final in May 2020, according to Moroccan reports.

The format of the CAF Champions League final has changed this season where the winner is decided through only one game.

The final showdown is set to take place on 29 May.

The battle to host the final was between Cameroon’s Japoma Stadium, Mohammed V Sports Stadium in Morocco and Tunisia’s Rades Olympic Stadium.

According to reports from Morocco’s channel Arryadia, Japoma Stadium in Douala was the winning bid and will be hosting venue for Africa’s most prestigious club competition’s final.

Al Ahly will face its Moroccan counterpart Wydad Casablanca, while Zamalek will face its Moroccan counterpart Raja in the CAF Champions League semifinals.

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Cameroon’s Aboudi Onguene scored a brace to give her side a 3-2 win against Zambia in the first leg of the African women’s football Olympic play-off final.

The striker scored an 88th minute winner in an eventful game in Yaounde, handing her side a narrow advantage before the second leg in Lusaka on 10 March.

The score was 1-1 at half time, after Zambia’s Grace Chanda scored the first of her two goals before Cameroon’s Ajara Nchout equalised before the break.

Onguene then put the home side ahead for the first time in the 71st minute. Three minutes later, Chanda scored a second to level the scores before Onguene gave Cameroon the victory late on.

The winner of the tie will earn a place at Tokyo 2020, which is scheduled to go ahead as planned in July and August despite fears over the coronavirus outbreak.

The losers in the tie will have one final chance to seal a place at the Games, with a play-off against Chile, the runners-up in the 2018 Copa America.

Three men’s teams have already qualified in the men’s section – South Africa, Egypt and Ivory Coast.

Cameroon have beaten Ethiopia, DR Congo and Ivory Coast to reach the final, while Zambia beat Botswana and Kenya after Zimbabwe’s refusal to play handed them qualification in the early rounds.

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China’s second-tier football club Shaanxi Chang’an Athletic announced the signing of Cameroon international Robert Ndip Tambe on Friday.

Tambe, 26, has played in Slovakia, Turkey, Romania and Moldova since beginning his professional career in 2015.

In the 2016-17 season, Tambe scored four goals in five games in the UEFA Europa League for Slovakian outfit Spartak Trnava. His performances earned him a place in Cameroon’s national team, and he was in the squad as his country won the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

Tambe is expected to take up the place left by striker Oscar Taty Maritu, who joined Chinese Super League side Shijiazhuang Ever Bright earlier this month.

Newly-promoted to China League One in 2019, Chang’an Athletic finished the season ninth of 16 teams.

China’s transfer window closed at midnight on Saturday, though a CFA statement on February 22 revealed that an extra transfer window would be introduced before the start of the league season, which has been delayed due to the coronavirus epidemic.

The extra window, which will last no less than three weeks, will be open exclusively to players and clubs registered with the CFA.

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Cameroon attacker Christian Bassogog has announced he will donate 10m CFA Francs ($16,000 or £13,000) to Cameroonian students living in areas of China stricken by the deadly coronavirus.

The 24-year-old, who joined the Chinese Super League club Henan Jianye in 2017, is currently in Yaounde while football is suspended in China due to the virus.

Cameroon’s embassy in China says there are close to 300 Cameroonians, mainly students, living in Hubei Province, considered the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic.

Of those around 200 are currently in the city of Wuhan which has been under quarantine since 23 January.

“China has a special place in my heart and that’s where I ply my trade,” Bassogog said after meeting with Cameroon’s minister delegate of external relations in charge of the Commonwealth.

“This money is aimed at helping Cameroonian nationals living in China especially the students.

“It’s important that we come together in such periods and show such support and love to the needy.

“We want more Cameroonians across the world to reach out and support not just their country men but also China as a nation.”

His donation comes after the central African nation’s president Paul Biya ordered for 50m CFA Francs ($82000 or £65,000) to be made available to the country’s embassy in Beijing, to provide assistance to Cameroonians living in the affected areas.

Bassogog, who burst into recognition after being named the Player of the Tournament at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations as Cameroon won the title, says he hopes his donation can spur more Cameroonian athletes to pay attention to the medical crisis in China.

Earlier this month, a Cameroonian student Kem Senou Pavel Daryl, was discovered to have contracted the disease in Zhengzhou, Henan province.

After two weeks of treatment, the 21-year-old showed no trace of the ailment, becoming the first African person known to be infected with the deadly coronavirus and the first to recover.

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The football world was thrown into mourning when the Cameroon legend died after collapsing during a Confederations Cup game in Lyon

Former Cameroon international Eric Djemba Djemba has revealed the last words of Marc-Vivien before he collapsed in their Fifa Confederations Cup semi-final game against Colombia.

In June 2003, Djemba Djemba was playing alongside Foe in the middle of the park for the Indomitable Lions when the former Manchester City and Lyon midfielder fell without contact from any player.

Efforts to revive Foe following the collapse proved futile as he was confirmed dead on arrival at the stadium’s medical centre, with an autopsy confirming hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as the cause of his death.

On their way to the Stade de Gerland, Djemba Djemba said the 28-year-old talked about death on the team bus on that fateful day and complained of fatigue during the match that ended 1-0 in favour of Cameroon.

“I will never forget what he said to us on the bus before we played,” the ex-Manchester United midfielder told SunSport.

“He said, ‘if someone needs to die today, we will die. We don’t need to lose that game because I promised to my wife and children we need to go to that final. I need to win the Confederations Cup.’

“I was the last person that talked to him. He said to me just before, ‘Eric, I am tired.’

“So I said to him, when the ball goes out, we’ll tell the coach, and he will substitute him.

“But he didn’t have one minute. The ball was in the air and he jumped up with Mario Yepes, who I played with at Nantes.

“I saw Foe fall down and then I saw Mario shouting, ‘Hey, hey, hey’. We walked over to him and we knew he was dead straight away.”

Djemba Djemba, 38, who is currently plying his trade in Swiss fifth division, admitted the tragic incident nearly made him quit football.

“I didn’t want to play again. Everyone was afraid to play the game. We won 1-0, and we needed to play the final,” he added.

“But we said we don’t want to play. We couldn’t sleep that night, everyone was crying. How could you go to play football and die?”

The sudden demise of Foe made Cameroon reluctant to play in the Confederations Cup final but efforts from ex-Fifa president Sepp Blatter, and Foe’s widow Marie-Louise, charged them to play the encounter which they lost 1-0 to France.

“He spoke to us and said he understood it was difficult, but added Fifa didn’t know what to do because we had got to the final,” he continued.

“Then Marc’s wife came to the hotel, and she said to us we need to play for him, for her and her children.

“So we went to play and we lost the game 1-0. Thierry Henry scored. But we weren’t in the right frame of mind.”

In paying tribute to the Indomitable Lions legend, France and Cameroon players held the Confederations Cup together while Foe was named the third-best player in the competition and was posthumously honoured.

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