« Above all, I rejoice in the triumph of the law and the reaffirmation and respect of the Statutes and Regulations as the cornerstone of sports governance which all players in football are calling for.“. In these terms, Guibaï Gatama reacts to his victory over the Cameroon Football Federation (Fécafoot) at the end of the legal proceedings opened the day after his ousting from the Executive Committee of Fécafoot on August 27, 2022. The man refuses any triumphalism in a situation where he has just inflicted a beating on his opponent, Samuel Eto’o, whom he had nevertheless accompanied during the electoral campaign, with the hope of giving Cameroonian football the respectable place that the former captain of the Indomitable Lions said he was looking for, who thus intended to clean up a football house whose flaws he denounced. and avatars, with above all the numerous violations of the actors’ rights. For himself to fall back into the same through some time later.
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In any case, in the press release he issues, the journalist says ” [prendre] act of this decision which [me] fully rehabilitate and restore my place as a full member of the Fécafoot Executive Committee elected on December 11, 2021 “. Welcoming in passing the rehabilitation of his fellow soldiers who are ” François Kouédem unjustly suspended as president of the West League “, but also ” the cancellation of the suspension of the Cameroon Professional Football League (LFPC)“, as well as ” the return of all the independent judicial bodies elected in August 2021 whose mandates had been irregularly revoked».
Guibaï Gatama argues that ” the arbitration panel left the responsibility for noting the vacancy to an extraordinary general meeting of Fécafoot“. Alluding to the decision of the Spanish courts which sentenced the former FC Barcelona player in June 2022 to 22 months in prison for ” fraud tax “. This, in the eyes of the “dissidents” of FECAFOOT, constituted a reason for the eviction of the president of FECAFOOT. And in the TAS 2022/A9277 procedure, Guibaï Gatama and the other appellants that are the LFPC, the Panthère sportive du Ndé, Alim Konaté, etc. also asked for the finding of the ineligibility of Samuel Eto’o. Except that neither the appellants nor the arbitration panel chaired by Jacques Radouxdid not have the evidence, including the court decision in question, to support their claim.
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His speech had been expected since yesterday morning. Guibaï Gatama did not wait long to decide on this affair which lasted almost a year. Today, the delegate from the Far North is simply happy to find his chair among the leaders of FECAFOOT. And does not mention the financial support that the CAS has asked FECAFOOT to pay them.
