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Only 12 days remain until the start of the 2022 World Cup, and while it seems that there is a certain consensus regarding the favorites to go all the way, today (Tuesday) we received an unusual prediction at all - and it comes from Samuel Eto'o.
The legendary former player, it should be noted, serves as the president of the Cameroonian association, so he may not be objective.
Still, according to him, the final will bring his homeland together with Morocco - nothing less and nothing more.
"Cameroon will pass Belgium in the quarter-finals and Senegal in the semi-finals. Morocco will pass Spain in the round of 16, Portugal in the quarter-finals and France in the semi-finals," he claimed.
The former player, who assumed the role of president of the association towards 2021, also estimated that all five representatives of the African continent will pass the group stage - Cameroon, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia and Ghana.
It will not be easy for them.
Let's remind, for those who forgot: Senegal was drawn to Group A with Holland, Ecuador and the host Qatar;
Tunisia for the fourth place, together with France, Denmark and Australia;
Morocco for sixth place, together with Croatia, Belgium and Canada;
Cameroon to the seventh house, together with Brazil, Serbia and Switzerland;
And Ghana to eighth place, together with Portugal, Uruguay and South Korea.
Eto has already voiced similar things in the past.
In an interview he gave to Walla!
Sport when he arrived in Israel earlier this year, he said: "Like every team that will play in the tournament, we dream of winning the World Cup. Maybe others will think I'm crazy, but it takes crazy people to change the world."
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Eto (Photo: GettyImages, Claudio Villa)
So far in the history of the World Cup, no African team has succeeded in the quarter-finals, but Eto'o is not the only one who expects the continent to succeed in the upcoming tournament.
"It's a good time to show that Africa has the best players, and the best national teams in the world," said former Cameroon star Roja Milla, who made his team the first African women to reach the quarter-finals in 1990 (later Senegal and Ghana repeated this feat) .
"We must make our players understand that it is possible to compete with the biggest teams," Mila added.
"We have everything we need to compete with them. For several years it was difficult for us, but African football has improved a lot. Now is the time to prove it. It is possible to go further than the quarter-finals."
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