Football World Cup 1990 / Cameroon

This article covers the Cameroon national football team at the 1990 World Cup .

qualification

First round

Cameroon received a bye as one of the best eight African teams.

Second round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Cameroon	9: 6	9
2	Nigeria	7: 5	7th
3	Angola	6: 7	4th
4th	Gabon	5: 9	4th

Cameroon	-	Angola	1: 1
Gabon	-	Cameroon	1: 3
Nigeria	-	Cameroon	2-0
Angola	-	Cameroon	1: 2
Cameroon	-	Gabon	2: 1
Cameroon	-	Nigeria	1-0

Third round

Cameroon	-	Tunisia	2-0
Tunisia	-	Cameroon	0: 1

Cameroonian contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Joseph-Antoine Bell	Girondins Bordeaux	10/08/1954	0	0	0	0
16	Thomas N'Kono	Espanyol Barcelona	07/20/1955	5	0	2	0
22nd	Jacques Songo'o	Sporting Toulon	03/17/1964	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	André Kana-Biyik	FC Metz	09/01/1965	3	0	2	1
3	Jules Onana	Canon Yaoundé	06/12/1964	3	0	2	0
4th	Benjamin Massing	US Créteil	06/20/1962	2	0	2	1
5	Bertin Ebwellé	Tonnerre Yaoundé	09/11/1962	5	0	0	0
6th	Emmanuel Kundé	Prévoyance Yaoundé	07/15/1956	4th	1	0	0
12	Alphonse Yombi	Canon Yaoundé	06/30/1969	0	0	0	0
13	Jean-Claude Pagal	La Roche VF	09/15/1964	3	0	0	0
14th	Stephen Tataw	Tonnerre Yaoundé	March 31, 1963	5	0	0	0
midfield player
8th	Emile M'Bouh	Le Havre AC	05/30/1966	4th	0	2	0
10	Louis-Paul M'Fédé	Canon Yaoundé	02/26/1961	5	0	0	0
15th	Thomas Libiih	Tonnerre Yaoundé	11/17/1967	2	0	0	0
17th	Victor N'Dip	Canon Yaoundé	08/18/1967	4th	0	2	0
19th	Roger Feutmba	Union Douala	10/31/1968	0	0	0	0
20th	Cyrille Makanaky	Sporting Toulon	06/28/1965	5	0	0	0
21st	Emmanuel Maboang	Canon Yaoundé	11/27/1968	3	0	0	0
striker
7th	François Omam-Biyik	Stade Laval	May 21, 1966	5	1	0	0
9	Roger Milla	JS Saint-Pierre	05/20/1952	5	4th	2	0
11	Eugène Ekéké	US Valenciennes	05/30/1960	1	1	0	0
18th	Bonaventure Djonkep	Union Douala	08/20/1961	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	Valery Nepomnyashchi		08/07/1943

Games of the Cameroonian team

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Cameroon	3: 5	4: 2
2	Romania	4: 3	3: 3
3	Argentina	3: 2	3: 3
4th	Soviet Union	4: 4	2: 4

• Argentina - Cameroon 0: 1 (0: 0)

Stadium: Giuseppe Meazza Stadium ( Milan )

Spectators: 73,780

Referee: Vautrot ( France )

Goals: 0: 1 Omam-Biyik (67.)

• Cameroon - Romania Romania 2: 1 (0: 0) 

Stadium: Stadio San Nicola ( Bari )

Spectators: 38,687

Referee: Silva Arce ( Chile )

Goals: 1-0 Milla (76th), 2-0 Milla (86th), 2: 1 Balint (88th)

• Cameroon - Soviet Union 0: 4 (0: 2)

Stadium: Stadio San Nicola ( Bari )

Spectators: 37,307

Referee: Ramiz Wright ( Brazil )

Goals: 0: 1 Protasov (20th), 0: 2 Sigmantowitsch (29th), 0: 3 Sawarow (55th), 0: 4 Dobrowolski (63rd)

World champions Argentina met Cameroon in the opening game of the tournament in Group B and suffered a sensational 1-0 defeat. Cameroon's victory was not their only trick in this group, because the Romanians also had to bow to this opponent with 1: 2. Cameroon could even afford to lose the last game against the Russians 4-0 without losing the group's leading position. This victory was no longer of any use to the Russians, as the two 2-0 defeats against group runners-up Romania and Argentina meant an early end. Argentina just reached the round of 16 in third place.

Round of 16

50,026

Stadio San Paolo ( Naples )

Cameroon

Colombia

Lanese ( Italy )

2: 1 n.V. (0: 0, 0: 0)

1: 0 Milla (106th) 2: 0 Milla (109th) 2: 1 Redín (115th)

Roger Milla was the match winner in the first round of 16 match for Cameroon against Colombia. For 90 minutes, the teams could not break through the defensive lines of the opponent decisively, but then the 38-year-old Lambada dancer struck. His two goals to make it 1-0 and 2-0 (106th and 109th), with Colombia's goalkeeper Higuita losing the ball on one of his trips outside the box, which meant the fatal blow for the South Americans, whose goal came too late. For the first time an African team reached the quarter-finals of a World Cup.

Quarter finals

55.205

Stadio San Paolo ( Naples )

England

Cameroon

Codesal Méndez ( Mexico )

3: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 1: 0)

1: 0 Platt (25th) 1: 1 Kundé (65th) 11 m 1: 2 Ekéké (65th) 2: 2 Lineker (83rd) 11 m 3: 2 Lineker (105th) 11 m

Up to the 82nd minute, Cameroon led 2-1 against England and the sensation was within reach. But two penalty kicks from center forward Gary Lineker (83rd and 105th) destroyed Cameroon's dreams of the semi-final. However, the pioneering work of the Cameroonians had an impact. For the first time ever, the Africans were promised three finals for the 1994 World Cup.