He signed a four-month contract with the club he left to play professional football in Italy.

After flirting with Coton Sport provoking speculations as to what his real intentions were, the former Indomitable Lion, Pierre Wome Nlend, has officially signed for the mythical club from Nkolndongo, Canon of Yaounde. He signed a four-month contract with no financial engagements given that the player will probably be leaving in June for another professional experience in Asia. The contract was signed before the encounter against Renaissance counting for the 8th day of play of the ongoing MTN Elite One championship but Wome couldn’t play for the Mekok Mengonda because his international transfer certificate had not been delivered by his former club, FC Cologne in Germany.

According t the specialised Cameroonian football website, Camfoot.com, Canon Yaounde has paid the sum of FCFA 100.000 to the Cameroon football federation for the necessary paper work to obtain the international transfer certificate. According to FIFA regulations, if the liberating club doesn’t issue an answer two weeks after notification, the player is automatically qualified to play. Fans of Kpa-Kum will therefore be delighted to see the former Indomitable Lions, put on the jersey of the club he left in 1996 to play in Italy. Wome Nlend insisted to include a clause in his contract that he is not going to play at the left back he is noted for, but at the midfield. Unconfirmed sources say Canon officials would have liked Wome to sign for a longer period of time so as to enable the club benefit financially in case of an eventual transfer to a richer club in the diaspora. The player just wanted to keep fit during the transfer season as he had no club.

It is equally rumoured that more former Lions are announced for Canon purportedly at the initiative of Pierre Wome Nlend with names like Joel Epalle and Alain Nkong announced to make a come back to the country. However, the General Manager of Canon, Louis Marie Ondoua, says this has not come to fruition and still remains rumours. Before, Pierre Wome, Geremi Njitap, trained with Renaissance but never signed a contract. It is not the first time a former lion that has played professional football in Europe has returned to the country to lay with his former club. Before the World Cup in 1990, a club-less Milla Roger returned to Tonnerre Yaounde just to earn a place in the historic squad that raised Cameroon to the lime light at the World Cup in Italy.