Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Mimi Mefo Info Francais (Editor)
Published on 2024-04-05 17:17:14
A letter from the Minister of Sports addressed to the President of Fecafoot this Friday reveals exorbitant salary demands from the coaches proposed to lead the Cameroon national team. This situation forced the government to take the initiative to recruit a new technical staff for the indomitable lions.
Indeed, according to Professor Narcisse Mouelle Kombi, the three applications submitted by Fecafoot raised concerns due to their excessive financial demands. The figures mentioned in the letter are striking, with salary demands ranging from approximately 1 billion to 1.6 billion CFA francs per year, averaging between 82,000,000 CFA francs to 132,000,000 CFA francs per month. These amounts, considered excessive, have never been paid to any coach in the history of the Indomitable Lions.
In addition to these deemed exorbitant salary demands, the letter highlights a requirement from the Cameroonian Football Federation regarding the provision of financial and logistical means two weeks before the potential start of the candidates. This requirement was labeled as difficult to sustain, even discouraging, given the current budgetary constraints of the state.
The Minister of Sports emphasized in the correspondence that these salary demands, combined with the requirement for early provision of financial and logistical means, made the coaches’ claims difficult to sustain. Additionally, he pointed out that other candidates with equivalent qualifications were making significantly more modest and logically more reasonable and sustainable financial demands.
Gilles Noubissie
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