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André Onana, 7th Cameroonian qualified in the C1 final

After their two-goal lead in the first leg a week ago at Giuseppe-Meazza, Inter Milan completed their job on Tuesday evening against their historic rivals, AC Milan, by winning again 1-0 in Champions League semi-final in this Madonnina derby. This after a remarkable performance and thanks to the goal scored at the start of the last quarter of an hour by his unsinkable captain, Lautaro Martinez.

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An interist qualification in the C1 final, 13 years after the last disputed in 2010, and which had consecrated it with in its ranks a certain … Samuel Eto’o Fils heroic during this campaign. In 2023, it is also with another flamboyant Cameroonian during their European stay that the Nerazzurri will reach the C1 final: André Onana.

The Cameroonian goalkeeper will have been one of the great architects of this interist success in Europe, thanks to formidable performances, which allowed him to keep his clean sheet on various meetings, making him the goalkeeper having achieved the greatest number of cleans sheets in this competition.

He also becomes the seventh Cameroonian player to play in a Champions League final, after his mentor Samuel Eto’o Fils, Geremi Njitap, Lauren Etame Mayer, Alex Song, Joël Matip and Choupo-Moting.

He could become, on the evening of June 10, the very first Cameroonian goalkeeper, and the fourth player among the seven, to win the cup with big ears, a feat already achieved by Eto’o, Matip and Njitap. Already he is the first and only Cameroonian goalkeeper to reach a C1 final to date.

André Onana will play his second European final, after the one played in the Europa League in 2017 with Ajax Amsterdam, but lost to Manchester United.

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