Francois Regis Mughe and the Indomitable Lions are over. At least for this African Cup of Nations (CAN) 2023. The staff of the Cameroon national team has just summoned Nicolas Moumi Ngamaleu to replace the youngster who opted to stay at the club during the CAN. The Dynamo Moscow member arrives in Jeddah in the early hours of January 5, 2024, where the group has already been for a few days for the preparatory course.
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This means if the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) and Olympique de Marseille agreed on the player’s desire to stay with the club. Aged 19, and in search of playing time, the Cameroonian international who had no guarantee of his tenure, according to the French newspaper L’Équipe, certainly wants to stay in the club in order to seize his chance in the absence of tenured executives who went to the CAN. An opportunity for him to increase his playing time and if possible try to establish himself among the Marseille attackers.
For his part, Moumi Ngamaleu, whose absence from Rigobert Song’s final list had fueled the controversy, has a chance to play a second CAN, after that of 2021 in the country. Below Antonio ConceiçaoNgamaleu was one of the centerpieces of the group and one of the best decisive passers.
