In pursuit of his daunting task to reconstruct the national football team, Javier Clemente Lazaro has planned a series of training camps to scout for new talents for the squad. The first of such training camps reserved for professional players in the Diaspora is currently underway in Vichy, France and a second is to follow in December in Yaounde, this time for home-based players.
Due to the fact that that the motive for the training camps is to select new talents to be injected into the squad, there will be no friendly match during the training camp in France as the objective is to determine the capacities of players. Confirmed talents like team captain, Samuel Eto’o Fils were deliberately left out.
Meanwhile, the short listed players arrived in Vichy on Sunday and are scheduled to have six training sessions during the training camp to run from November to 14 to 17, 2010. The players arrived in two batches. The first, comprising Ndy Assembles, Mbami Modeste, Eric Matoukou, Jorge Kouemaha, Somen A Tchoyi and Itanje who came along with a friend from Liverpool. The second contingent was made up of Nicolas Nkoulou, Landry Nguemo, Alexis Enam and Benoit Angbwa arrived in the Aletti Palace hotel in Vichy just in time for dinner before moving into their hotel rooms. Meanwhile, Aloys Nong was called up at the last minute to replace Vincent Aboubakar who is said to have some health problems.
It is worth mentioning that Javier Clemente is trying to build a competitive squad that will not only qualify Cameroon for the African Cup of Nations to take place in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea in 2012, but also qualify the country for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. A friendly match has been scheduled for the next FIFA period in December to fine tune the team ahead of the qualifier against Senegal in March for the 2012 African Cup of Nations. However, Cameroon is yet to find a sparring partner after Clemente turned down a lucrative offer from Iran during the November window on suspicion that the Islamic Republic was not going respect her engagements.
