Onana, in training with his team. /
The current goal of Inter Milan would have argued with the coach about the game model
The waters go down troubled in the concentration of Cameroon. Just an hour before the start of the match between the ‘Indomitable Lions’ against Serbia, which ended in a three-way tie, André Onana, their starting goalkeeper, was announced to be out for “disciplinary reasons”, as announced the federation chaired by Samuel Eto’o. “Onana has been removed from the group, we make life a bit complicated,” they explained, specifying that the Inter Milan goalkeeper would be replaced, as has been the case, by Devis Epassy, who plays for Abha in Saudi Arabia. According to various sources, the cause would be a discussion with the coach, Robert Song, over the game model.
«Onana wanted to leave and we accepted it. You have to adapt to the discipline of the team. If you can’t do it, if you can’t adapt to what we ask of you, I think it’s necessary to step aside and take responsibility,” the coach explained after the game. «He is a very important player, but we are in competition and my job is to put the team ahead of individualities. He is one of the best goalkeepers in Europe, but this is not about his performances, but about preserving the team. I am the ‘father’ of these boys, so when I have to make decisions, I do it and I answer for it, “he added. Asked if he will give the goalkeeper a second chance, he hasn’t ruled it out. “We’ll see if he continues. We will see if he abides by the rules again », he has concluded.
The current Inter Milan goalkeeper, 26 years old and 34 international caps, was a starter at the start of the World Cup against Switzerland. The match ended in defeat for the Cameroonians due to a goal from Embolo, a player born in the country and who came to apologize to his ‘compatriots’. He was also the chosen one in the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) in January and February, in which Cameroon finished third.
Onana, with a past in Barca’s youth ranks, from where he went to Ajax to make a name for himself internationally, was banned for a year for doping after furosemide, a diuretic, was found in his urine during an out-of-competition test on October 30, 2020. The goalkeeper alleged that he mistakenly took a tablet of a medication that he had prescribed for his wife. This season he began alternating the Inter goal with Handanovic until he finally managed to take the starting position.
