Samuel Eto’o has hit out at Fifa president Sepp Blatter for his comments regarding Cameroon’s controversial new kit. The Indomitable Lions are parading the ‘all-in-one’ strip at the current African Cup of Nations, but, not for the first time, Blatter has criticised the Africans’ initiative.
Blatter refused to allow Cameroon to wear sleeveless shirts in the last World Cup in Japan and Korea, and also did not let them retire the number 17 that Marc-Vivien Foe used to wear before his tragic death last year.
Eto’o feels that Blatter is persecuting Cameroon, stating: « Fifa seem to have a fixation with us.
« At the last World Cup there was the matter of the shirts without sleeves and the refereeing of (Spanish official) Lopez Nieto against Germany.
« Since then they did not authorise the Cameroon Football Association to retire the shirt of Foe when he died in a tournament, and now there is the unnecessary remarks over our new kit.
« They seem to want to stop our initiatives whatever they might be.
« Blatter is not a fashion designer as far as I know, and he should not interfere in matters of professional design. »
