CAMEROON ANNOUNCE AFRICAN NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP(CHAN) 2018 SQUAD

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The  list of 23 players was published yesterday evening by the head coach of the intermediate Lions of Cameroon;Rigobert  Song B..Song a former indomitable Lion,winner of 2 AFCON titles from 8 participation and Cameroon's all time most capped player(137 caps) published the list after weeks of intense training and keen observation of the 25 players in friendly games and in qualifiers.

 Cameroon Eliminated Sao Tome et Principe in the last round of the qualifiers to qualify for the tournament billed to take place in Morocco in the month of January and February 2018.

The final list of players for the tournament is without the name of Lionel Abate of AS Fortuna(Top scorer in the league two championship in the just ended season) and without former Cotonsport forward Souleymanou Moussa who was in the CHAN 2016 in Rwanda.Moussa was left out of the 23 because he signed a contract in the month of October with Zanaco of Zambia making him ineligible for selection for the championship.

22 year old MTN elite one top scorer last season Francis Elimbi made the list amidst issues surrounding his recent transfer from Aigle to Apejes.

Defender Serge Andoulo and forward Patrick Moukoko have signed for Cotonsport of Garoua while duo Willy Nnameji and David Etoo now are   Eding's New recruits.

The only player in the 23 man shortlist to have experienced the tournament is back up goalkeeper Anye Fru Derrick of Union Sportive of Douala who was there in 2016.

The full list has the following names.

GOALKEEPERS:

1)JEAN OSCAR KALATI GWOT (EDING FC)

2) SIMON MEDJO OMOSSOLA (COTONSPORT OF GAROUA)

3)ANYE FRU DERRICK(USD)

DEFENDERS:

4)TIENCHEU MARIE ALPHONSE(EDING FC)

5)ETTA THOMAS BAWAK (UMS LOUM)

6)PAUL GRAVIER ABOUEM MAYA (UMS LOUM)

7)BERTRAND OWUNDI (ASTRES)

8)PAUL OTIA ELA(UMS LOUM)

9)FABRIL KAOU (COTONSPORT OF GAROUA)

10)SERGE ANDOULO(NEW STARS OF DOUALA)

11)CHARLES BANGA (COLOMBE DJA)

MIDFIELDERS:
13)AWONO JUNIOR(YOSA OF BAMENDA)

14)DAVID PIERRE ETOO(USD)

15)WILLIAM STEPHANE NNAMEJI (UMS LOUM)

16)ANTEH FEANKLIN (UNISPORT OF BAFANG)

17)BITANG CLARENCE (USD)

FORWARDS:

18) BLACK WILLIAM NGOUNDOU KOUO BILLE  (NEW STARS OF DOUALA)

19)FRANCIS MAXIMILIAN EBEMBE ELIMBI (AIGLE ROYAL)

20) FRANTZ PANGOP (USD)

21)ARISTIDE TOUFFIC (EDING FC)

22)PATRICK MOUKOKO (COLOMBE OF DJA)

23) RAPHAEL ERIC MESSI BOULIT (APEJES)

The players have been listed as per the clubs they featured for last season.Union Mouvement Sportive(UMS) of Loum and Union Sportive Douala(USD) both Littoral clubs have 4 players in the squad while 2017 league Eding FC have 3 players in the squad.

The squad will have the last training session in Cameroon this morning ahead of their trip to Morocco billed for the 1st of January 2018 at 5:00 A.M.

While in Morocco the team is expected to play 3 friendly games against Guinea Conakry in Rabat,host nation Morocco in Casablanca and Uganda in Rabat.The friendly games are programmed for 3rd,6th and 9th of January respectively.

The 3 weeks tournament kicks off on the the 13th of January(Morocco VS Mauritania)to run to the 4th of February.

Cameroon is in group D and engage in the competition fully on the 16th of January 2018 with a game against Congo Brazzaville in Agadir(7:30 P.M)before games against Angola at the same venue 4 days later in a remake of a 2016 group stage meeting.Cameroon play her last group game on the 24 against Burkina faso still in Agadir.

Song's and his boys have as target to go beyond Cameroon's best ever CHAN performance in her two previous participation which is a quarter final place but they must  earned their success amongst the following nations;

Group A (Casablanca)
Morocco (Hosts)
Guinea
Sudan
Mauritania

Group B (Marrakech)
Cote d’Ivoire
Zambia
Uganda
Namibia

Group C (Tangier)
Libya
Nigeria
Rwanda
Equatorial Guinea

Group D (Agadir)
Angola
Cameroon
Congo(Eliminated defending champions DRC)
Burkina Faso

Cameroonians love for football is simply exceptional and to start  the year 2018 like the year of Gabon 2017 will simply be the best gift to them from their darling soccer team.

By Nji Nelson Chefor

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