“In Garoua, he confiscated the keys to…”

A few hours after the end of the first two days of the CAN 2025 qualifiers, Jean-Marie Nkoussa, communications manager of FECAFOOT, made some big revelations about Marc Brys.

Here is one that will once again make people talk at 237 and everywhere else where Cameroonian sports news attracts attention. At the heart of the debates since his appointment as head of the Indomitable Lions, Marc Brys (62 years old), Belgian technician, continues to make ink flow. Appointed by the Ministry of Sports against the wishes of FECAFOOT, led by Samuel Eto'o, the former coach of OH Louvain (Belgian club) does nothing to make peace with the members of the Federation. Since his altercation with the head of the Cameroonian football governing body, things have taken a deplorable turn with settling of scores.

Recently, before the start of the CAN 2025 qualifiers with matches against Namibia and Zimbabwe, the coach made his mark again. In full complicity with the agents of the Ministry of Sports, Marc Brys stood up to the Eto'o Fils authority. If in the end it was FECAFOOT that won many duels with the blessing of CAF, extraordinary things would have happened during the last gathering of the Indomitable Lions in Cameroon.

Nkoussa's revealing interview

In fact, in a special interview on the show Sports Faces On the Douala-based RSI sports radio this Thursday, Jean-Marie Nkoussa, head of the communication department of the Cameroon Football Federation, made a big revelation about the actions of Marc Brys. Without mincing his words, the communicator deplored the way in which the coach disregards the laws and texts in force because of his ego and bias in the standoff between the Minister of Sports, Mouelle Kombi Narcisse, and the head of FECAFOOT.

“ Everyone is witnessing the difficult collaboration between the coach and FECAFOOT, the texts must be respected, the problems of men must not be above Cameroon […] The coach took it upon himself to do as he wished, yet it is the Federation that exchanges with CAF and the Ugandan authorities. But when things go wrong, he puts everything on the FECAFOOT account. “, Nkoussa first indicated.

“Marc Brys confiscated the keys to the locker room”

Returning in a little more detail to the tense relationship with the Belgian coach, who recently took out the sprayer against Samuel Eto'o whom he describes as a failure as a sports manager, the head of the Federation's department revealed a lunar event that took place during the selection's trip to the north of the country on September 7 to play Namibia (1-0).

” In Garoua, Marc Brys confiscated the keys to the locker room so that FECAFOOT could not have the equipment. The players did not make a choice, they are somewhat hostages of a coach who has the last word on the starting eleven “, Jean-Marie Nkoussa said before adding about the missed training sessions on Ugandan soil. “The players cannot decide not to train, but they were forced not to do so because the coach had opted for being stuck in traffic (for having chosen the MINSEP accommodation rather than that of FECAFOOT in Kampala).”

In any case, these are unprecedented revelations that say a lot about the real situation around the Indomitable Lions. When we know that the players will return at the beginning of next month to play the next two days of the CAN 2025 qualifiers, we must expect many more twists and turns. Already, this Wednesday, false rumors about an alleged suspension of the coach circulated before being denied by the Federation itself. It's not over yet…