Africa's Greatest Player Samuel Eto'o

Africa's Greatest Player Samuel Eto'o

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Samuel Etoo Fils (born 10 March 1981) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Italian Serie A club Internazionale. He is also the current captain of the Cameroon national team.[3] Etoo trained at Kadji Sports Academy.

The Cameroon striker had a slow start to his career, struggling to make the grade as a youngster at Real Madrid, but after moving to Real Mallorca in 2000 he began to shine.

He became the clubs all-time leading domestic scorer in four years and earned himself a big money move to Barcelona. With lightning pace and a deadly eye for goal, Samuel Etoo has established himself as one of the worlds best strikers.

Etoo scored over 100 goals in five seasons with FC Barcelona, and is also the record holder in number of appearances by an African player in La Liga. In 2010, he became the first player to win two European Continental Trebles following his back-to-back achievements with Barcelona and Internazionale.

He is the second player to have ever scored in two separate UEFA Champions League finals and the fourth player, after Marcel Desailly, Paulo Sousa and Gerard Piqu, to have won the UEFA Champions League two years in a row with different teams. He is the most decorated African player of all time having won the African Player of the Year award a record four times in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2010.

At international level, Etoo has excelled and is Cameroons all-time leading scorer with 42 goals in 87 games. He got his first taste of World Cup football in 1998, making a single appearance as a substitute in Cameroons 3-0 group stage defeat to Italy.

But he quickly became an integral part of the Indomitable Lions team, scoring the winner in Cameroons sole victory at the 2006 finals, against Saudi Arabia and winning the African Nations Cup in 2000 and 2002, as well as winning golden boot for being top scorer at both the 2006 and 2008 tournaments.

He was Cameroons top marksman in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup, netting nine goals in 11 games. He is the all-time leading scorer in the history of the African Nations Cup, with 18 goals.He was a part of the squad that won the 2000 Olympic tournament

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