Roger Milla, messiah to rescue Cameroon football?

The Cameroon football Federation, FECAFOOT elections will take place between 10 and 29 November 2014 to find out who takes over the ‘hot football seat’ in the country.

So far, only EboaElame Mikado who is a journalist had declared his candidacy. As for Roger Milla, he has been advertised as a potential candidate to replace the detained Iya Mohammed.

According to Cameroon-info.net, Milla’s candidacy has been declared and has been sparked by admirers and other personality members of a Committee called the “Committees in support of the Candidature of Roger Milla to the position of president of the FECAFOOT".

The committee strongly believed that Milla is the right person to steer Cameroon football back to its glorious days.

Milla has been at the forefront when it comes to criticising those running Cameroon football. If he agrees to run in the upcoming elections, Cameroonians will be hoping that he might be the messiah who will rescue the dilapidating Cameroon football.

They will be hoping to see a former player heads the football federation, just like it is the case in Zambia where Kalusha Bwalya steers Zambia to their first ever continental trophy in 2012 as the country’s FA President, France’s Michel Platini who is the President of UEFA among others.

It is often said ‘’experience is the best teacher’’. How evident is this proverb in the management of the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT). With the extension of the mandate of the Normalisation Committee coming to an end, the question on every lip is who will be at the helm of the Federation come November 2014.

For the last 6 years, the Federation has experienced a continuous journey down the pits of hell, which resulted to the decline of Cameroonian football in the international level. The quest for more power and management of huge sums of money has often been attributed to as principal reasons for the disorder.

Roger Milla achieved his international stardom at the age of 38, a time when most strikers hang their boots, by scoring 4 goals at the 1990 world cup. He also helped Cameroon become the first African nation to reach the quarter –finals of the World Cup.

If Milla is elected, Cameroonians will be expecting him to follow in the footsteps of former players like Michel Platini, Kalusha Bwalya, Mozambique’s MarioColuna among others who have all been a success in managing football in their respective countries.