{"id":2069,"date":"2025-01-25T19:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T19:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fctnewsonline.com\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2025-01-25T19:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T19:22:06","slug":"samuel-etoo-reunites-with-old-teammate-working-as-security-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fctnewsonline.com\/?p=2069","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Eto\u2019o reunites with old teammate working as security guard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Samuel Eto\u2019o, President of the Cameroonian Football Federation (FECAFOOT), recently had an emotional reunion with a former teammate who is now a security guard in Douala.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eto\u2019o, who was in town for an Ecobank Group lecture, ran into an old buddy, a man with whom he had once played football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two former colleagues had a meaningful talk, reminiscing about their previous experiences in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eto\u2019o was noticeably moved by the experience and directed his assistant to set up a formal appointment with his old friend to further reconnect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eto\u2019o, one of Africa\u2019s greatest footballers, had an illustrious career, winning four African Player of the Year titles and playing for prestigious European clubs such as Barcelona, Inter Milan, and Chelsea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He secured a historic treble with Inter Milan in 2010 and won the Champions League with Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since retiring in 2019, Eto\u2019o has remained influential in the world of football, and in December 2021, he was elected President of FECAFOOT, continuing his dedication to advancing the sport\u00a0in\u00a0Cameroon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Eto\u2019o, President of the Cameroonian Football Federation (FECAFOOT), recently had an emotional reunion with a former teammate who is now a security guard in Douala. Eto\u2019o, who was in town for an Ecobank Group lecture, ran into an old buddy, a man with whom he had once played football. The two former colleagues had &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-life-style"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}