In a press release signed on September 19, 2024, the secretary general of the Cameroon Football Federation (Fécafot) informs the public that Fécafoot has launched an international call for tenders to select a supplier of equipment for the Indomitable Lions, all combined selections. Bidders have 10 days to come, paying an amount of 250 thousand CFA francs (381 euros). Especially since the day had passed by publishing the press release.
The procurement committee of Fécafoot will meet after the closing of the application deadline, to examine the files and “ the manufacturer of the equipment will go after getting the best score», specifies Blaise Djounanggeneral secretary of Fécafoot. Voices are already being raised to suspect Fécafoot of arranging a fool’s bargain. ” In ten days, how does an equipment manufacturer put together a regular file?», asked Dr. Serge Mbappe, football promoter on the airwaves of Royal FM, a private radio station in Yaoundé. seeing it as action” to clear your conscience, with your device supplier already“. This is because the Indomitable Lions will be playing on October 7 against Kenya, in the qualifiers for the African Cup of Nations (CAN) 2025. And so the manufacturer of the equipment has 17 days to withdraw the call for tenders from Fécafoot, prepare the file, wait to examine the files, their examination, start negotiations until the the contract will be signed, equipment models will be proposed, they will confirm and produce large quantities in stock. A race against time.
To understand: It’s over between One all sport and Fécafoot
We know that by terminating the contract with One all sport on August 6, after two years of a contract in total limbo, Fécafoot announced that this call for offers was imminent, with look to provide the national football teams of Cameroon, a manufacturer of new equipment. . For several months, Fécafoot had been hiding in deafening silence. While she had announced that the Indomitable Lions will wear the equipment of the secret One sport until Fifa in September 2024. But the last rounds of the Indomitable Lions A took place in troubled conditions, characterized by war control of the election between Fécafoot and the State of Cameroon. After Fécafoot refused to provide training and match equipment to the workers identified by the State of Cameroon, the ministry in charge of sports, since last June, has bought equipment on the market. The next trip will be complicated, as the ministry does not yet know the manufacturer of the equipment that will decorate the national elections. And the State, which had not already been associated with the One sport option, asked in vain to see the contract that binds it to Fécafoot.
At the time when Fécafoot will launch the call for tenders, information from Tsinga indicates that the Cameroonian football governing body has been involved in negotiations with Adidas of Germany for several months, but it is said that the negotiations fall on the choice of the manufacturer of the equipment. makeAndrew Onana to my Which would not be to taste Samuel Eto’othe president of Fécafoot who is not on the same page as the most prominent of the Indomitable Lions of the day.
