Soccer is the most popular sport in Africa. It is also the sport that cost the less because you just need to have a ball and some friends to start a game. Soccer is so important that each Africa nation has a national team that not only represents few players dressed in the color of the country, but a whole nation. For my case, the national team of my country, Cameroon, is nicknamed the national team. Everyone is involved in the performance of the team, from the grand-parents up to babies. We are considered as one of the best national team of Africa and the world since we were ranked 11th in the FIFA ranking in November 2006. Every country is well known for something, American for burgers, French for the good food, we, we are well known for our national team since we were the first African team to reach the quarterfinal of a final phase of the World cup in 1990. I remember several times, when I answer to people about my origins, and they tell to me, “Cameroon of Roger Milla”, “Cameroon of Samuel Eto’o”; indeed these two Cameroonians players are very famous. Roger Milla established two records that are the oldest player ever to appear in a world cup and the oldest goalscorer in a world cup tournament at the age of 42. Samuel Eto’o also is a great recordman, he is the first player to realize two consecutives years the triple (championship, national cup, champions league) with two different teams (FC Barcelona, Internazionale Milano). Expecting a lot from our national team, we are firmly attached to the statement saying: “A lion never die, he just sleep”; In other word, people are not waiting for us but the world cup is ours.
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