Football came to Cameroon through the French, since the African country was a European colony of the Gauls until 1960. In fact, his first national team match was before independence in September 1953, against the Belgian Congo team.
Information about the Cameroon National Team that will participate in group G of the 2022 World Cup.
• DT: Rigobert Song
• Captain: Vincent Aboubakar
• Figure: Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting
• Promise: Stève Mvoué
• This is how he plays and possible eleven
• History in World Cups
• This is how he arrives at Qatar 2022
• The road to the World Cup
• The best in its history
• Origin of football in the country
• The groups
• The calendar
In 1961After declaring independence created the First Division of Cameroonwhich has mostly been divided between two teams: Cotonsport Garoua, which has 16 titles and is almost on the border with Nigeria, and Canon Yaoundé, from the capital, who managed to win the title 10 times, but also became champions in three chances of the African Champions League.
At the national team level, in 1965 his first win came, a 9-0 against Chad, which is still the record for the Indomitable Lions today. While your first participation in the African Cup of Nations was in 1970. She was eliminated in the first round, but two years later when she hosted the Cup she made it to the podium and lifted the third place medal.
In the ’80s came the titles: Cameroon was champion in 1984 and 1988and was runner-up in 1986. He became champion again in the cups of 2000 Y 2002 from the hand of Samuel Eto’o and Patrik M’Boma. And he just got crowned again 2017while last year, as host of the Cup, it came in third place.
In addition, Cameroon won the gold medal with the U23 team at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, when they beat Spain on penalties.