Conceiçao Drags FECAFOOT To Court, Claiming 1 Billion FCFA Dues

After his Unceremonious dismissal at the request of the Cameroon Football Federation, the former coach of Cameroon has requested from the government and FECAFOOT on March 4, a compensation of a whopping 1,566,000 euros (more than one billion FCFA).

Antonio Conceicao’s lawyer fixed the amount of the sum due to the Portuguese technician after what the gaffer’s entourage claim an ‘abusive breach’ of his contract at the head of the Indomitable Lions.

Conceiçao’s lawyer, Jonas Vallina – has demanded from the Cameroonian authorities via a statement, that they payments be made within two weeks.

Conceiçao considered his dismissal as abusive and asked to receive the cumulative salary of 90,0000 euros monthly (60 million FCFA) until August 2023, the date which was supposed to be the end of his contract with Cameroon.

For starters, it was in August 2021 that Conceicao extended his two-year contract as coach of the Indomitable Lions. He was given as task, to reach the AFCON semis, and qualify Cameroon for the World Cup later this summer. He reached the semis of the AFCON, but wasn’t left to finish the other objective, which was to qualify Cameroon for the WC. When he was sacked last February, he had only been in charge for six months after contract renewal.

This is becoming reoccurring. In June 2020, Cameroon payed off more than 114 millions to 2017 AFCON winner coach Hugo Bross.

On March 2 2021, the World Football governing body, FIFA, gave the management of the Cameroon Football Federation ,FECAFOOT, 30 days to pay in a sum 316.000 Euros an estimate of FCFA 397 million to former Coaches of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, Dutch duo, Clarence Clyde Seedorf and Patrick Kluivert, which was eventually done.