THE Indomitable Lionesses lost this afternoon in Jinja, in eastern Uganda, against the local selection (2-0). In a game which went well beyond the fillies of Jean Baptiste Bisseck who failed to reduce the score on a penalty “graciously” offered by the referee. Nchout Ajarra Njoya missed his shot, allowing the local selection to maintain its superiority throughout the first part. The second part will be similar to the first. As the Ugandans march on their opponents, they multiply the waste: passes that do not arrive, spectacular misses in front of the goals,… then Bihina must once again turn around in her goals. We will stay there until the end of the game.
The match counted for the playoffs Olympic Games (JO) 2024. If Cameroon by its status was able to escape the preliminary round like Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Botswana, its journey is threatened with stopping at this stage. The Lionesses will have to surpass themselves on the return to Yaoundé, and win the game with a margin of at least two goals. A bet that promises to be complicated for a selection which is losing its soul and no longer scares. After Kenya, here is Uganda which lies on the way to Cameroon. Road which leads to Paris 2024. The future is not very reassuring because in case the Ugandan equation is resolved, Nigeria which beat Ethiopia should be the next target. A thunderbolt of war which generally beat Cameroon.
The evolutionary curve of Jean Baptiste Bisseck continues to trend downward. In three matches, the national team recorded only one victory and two defeats. In passing, an elimination of the African Cup of Nations (CAN) 2024. A great first, as Cameroon has never missed this prestigious continental meeting. This is a track record to be put to the credit of Jean Baptiste Bisseck, the new selector of the Indomitable Lionesses A. The man who ended the last elite one season on a positive note with Coton sport de Garoua, is experiencing rather a nightmare with the Lionesses. The one who was already the subject of controversy since his “parachuting” at the head of this selection, did not give arguments to his benefactors in his defense. He who is learning to know women’s football in its specificity, and who started school from the top. The fault perhaps lies with himself who, apart from Eding de la Lékié, Canon de Yaoundé and Coton sport de Garoua, did not already have a resounding name in the sphere of football, perhaps did not had time to prepare his ground, before launching into the arena. However, following Gabriel Zabo a few weeks before the start of the CAN 2024 qualifiers, Bisseck did not have the humility to call on the “experts” in the field. The neophyte has instead initiated surgical type reforms, immediately turning the page on certain yesterday’s frameworks, without having prepared himself.
Pedigree
And the critics who greeted its first list of players, lived up to the doubt of the press and informed observers of women’s football in Cameroon on its abilities to take up the challenge. Already the man did not boast the most brilliant pedigree. The technician has gained a lot, but as an educator, and to a certain extent in the male elite. Several times champion in France in regional competitions or youth tournaments such as in 2000 with Avion de Lens in CFA, or even French U18 champion with Templuve, Jean Baptiste Bisseck who has a Uefa A license, won the Coupe du Cameroon 2018 with Eding de la Lékié. But in selection, the technician is a novice who inherited a pack of Lionesses who were certainly sick but not toothless, to whom he was unable to restore strength. A selection which has certainly never won the CAN, but which has never missed the continental meeting; and above all, regularly flirted with the peaks. That was a long time ago. With Jean Baptiste Bisseck, the ship which was already rocking under Zabo, is sinking deeper.
