Mbappe Leppe: One of the best Cameroonian footballers

Samuel Mbappe Leppe, who was born in 1936 and died on December 25, 1985 in Douala, was a Cameroonian international footballer who played at the midfield.

He played for Oryx Douala in the 1950s and 1960s, winning five league titles in Cameroon (1961, 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1967), three times the Cup of Cameroon (1963, 1968 and 1970) and is the first captain to lift the African champions clubs’ Cup in the 1964-1965 season.

Nicknamed Maréchal, he was the captain of the Cameroon football team.

He was part of the Cameroonian group selected to play the African Cup of Nations of 1970 (Cameroon was eliminated in the group stage).

“I had never seen such a great man by height and talent, he has a very wide viewing on the field and always knows where to place the ball. Mbappe Leppe is a footballer with an extraordinary and phenomenal ball striking," declared the Malian star Salif Keita, after the final of the first African Cup of champions Clubs (now CAF Champions League).