• Hausa Edition
  • Podcast
  • Conferences
  • LeVogue Magazine
  • Business News
  • Print Advert Rates
  • Online Advert Rates
  • Contact Us
Monday, October 27, 2025
Leadership Newspapers
Read in Hausa
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
    • Football
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Education
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Columns
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
    • Football
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Education
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Columns
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
Leadership Newspapers
No Result
View All Result

Eto’o Wins Appeal To Contest CAF Elections

by Toby Moses
8 months ago
in Football, Sport
Eto’o
Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on XTelegram

Four-times African Footballer of the Year Samuel Eto’o has won the right to be included on the list of candidates for the Confederation of African Football’s elective congress next week after initially being ruled out of the contest.

Advertisement

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld an appeal by Eto’o against his exclusion from the CAF executive committee elections in Cairo next Wednesday.

Eto’o, incumbent president of the Cameroon Football Federation, was excluded by CAF’s governance committee in January but appealed his case to sport’s highest court CAS, who ruled in his favour.

Advertisement

“Following a hearing on 3 March 2025, it is ordered that the CAF executive committee includes Eto’o in the list of candidates for election to the committee,” said a CAS statement. “The CAS Panel considered that it presented sufficient information to overturn the CAF Executive Committee’s decision concerning Eto’o’s ineligibility.

“It will be for the CAF Extraordinary General Assembly Meeting on 12 March to make its own evaluation of the candidates.”

No grounds were given when CAF excluded Eto’o in January, but the 43-year-old former Cameroon striker was suspended last year by world soccer governing body FIFA and CAF.

RELATED NEWS

Alleged Misuse Of FIFA Funds Casts Shadow Over Nigeria’s Football Development

Juventus Sack Tudor As Head Coach After 7 Months

Mbappe, Bellingham On Target As Real Madrid Beat Barcelona In Clasico

Matty Cash’s Goal Sees Aston Villa Upset Man City

In September, FIFA banned him from attending the national team’s matches for six months for violating disciplinary regulations, after allegedly verbally abusing match officials at the Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia.

Earlier in the year, CAF banned Eto’o after an inquiry into purported breaches of its ethical and integrity standards when he took up a role as ambassador for a betting company. The ban and a $200,000 fine were later lifted on appeal.

The fiery Eto’o might be one of Africa’s finest ever players but he has proven a divisive figure in the administration of the game, both in his own country and in the international arena.

CAF will next week hold elections for its top posts, including the president of the organisation and the continent’s representatives on the FIFA Council.

The deadline for submission of candidates was in November, but African football’s governing body has failed to publish a list of them with the election less than a week away.
However, CAF president Patrice Motsepe is standing unopposed for a second four-year term.

Join Our WhatsApp Channel


SendShareTweetShare

OTHER NEWS UPDATES

FIFA Warned Of Legal Action Over Club World Cup Schedule
Sport

Alleged Misuse Of FIFA Funds Casts Shadow Over Nigeria’s Football Development

8 hours ago
Juventus Sack Tudor As Head Coach After 7 Months
Football

Juventus Sack Tudor As Head Coach After 7 Months

9 hours ago
Hacker Attacks Messi, Chelsea, Israel In Compromised Mbappe’s X Account
Sport

Mbappe, Bellingham On Target As Real Madrid Beat Barcelona In Clasico

1 day ago
Advertisement
Leadership join WhatsApp

LATEST UPDATE

Edo APC Threatens To Suspend Any Commissioner Without Tinubu Symbolic Cap

45 minutes ago

2027: Group Promises 2m Votes For Tinubu, Uba Sani

2 hours ago

‘Abu Ibrahim Risked Jail For Fellow Senators After June 12 Annulment’, Tinubu Hails Ex-Katsina South Senator At 80

2 hours ago

Circuits, Mount Zion, Sozo Films Unite To Revive Iconic Gospel Series ‘Agbara Nla’

2 hours ago

‘They Lied To Us’, Peter Obi Accuses NFF Of Abandoning FIFA Stadium Project In Anambra

2 hours ago
Load More

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
    • Football
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • Education
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Columns
  • Others
    • LeVogue Magazine
    • Conferences
    • National Economy
  • Contact Us

© 2025 Leadership Media Group - All Rights Reserved.