Football World Cup 2002 / Cameroon

The Cameroon national football team at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea :

qualification

Cameroon reached the second round of qualifying for the 2002 World Cup with two victories over Somalia . There you could easily prevail against your fellow campaigners from Angola, Zambia, Libya and Togo. In the end, they were six points ahead and were able to qualify for a World Cup final for the fourth time in a row. The team was trained by the German coach Winfried Schäfer during qualification .

1st round (both games in Cameroon) :

Cameroon	-	Somalia		3-0
Cameroon	-	Somalia		3-0

2nd round:

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Cameroon	14: 4	19th
2	Angola	11: 9	13
3	Zambia	14:11	11
4th	Togo	10:13	9
5	Libya	7:19	1

Libya	-	Cameroon		0: 3
Cameroon	-	Angola		3-0
Togo	-	Cameroon		0: 2
Cameroon	-	Zambia		1-0
Cameroon	-	Libya		1-0
Angola	-	Cameroon		2-0
Cameroon	-	Togo		2-0
Zambia	-	Cameroon		2: 2

Cameroonian contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Alioum Boukar	Samsunspor	3rd January 1972	3	0	0	0	0
16	Jacques Songo'o	FC Metz	March 17, 1964	0	0	0	0	0
22nd	Carlos Kameni	AC Le Havre	February 18, 1984	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Bill Tchato	HSC Montpellier	May 14, 1975	3	0	1	0	0
3	Pierre Womé	Bologna FC	March 26, 1979	3	0	1	0	0
4th	Rigobert Song	1. FC Cologne	July 1, 1976	3	0	1	0	0
5	Raymond Kalla	FC Extremadura	April 22, 1975	3	0	1	0	0
6th	Pierre Nyanka	Racing Strasbourg	March 15, 1975	1	0	0	1	0
12	Lauren	Arsenal FC	19th January 1977	3	0	1	0	0
13	Lucien Mettomo	Manchester City	April 19, 1977	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
7th	Joseph N'Do	Al-Khaleej	April 28, 1976	0	0	0	0	0
8th	Geremi Njitap	real Madrid	December 20, 1978	3	0	1	0	0
15th	Nicolas Alnoudji	Çaykur Rizespor	December 9, 1979	0	0	0	0	0
17th	Marc-Vivien Foé	Olympique Lyon	May 1st, 1975	3	0	1	0	0
19th	Eric Djemba-Djemba	FC Nantes	May 4th 1981	0	0	0	0	0
20th	Salomon Olembé	Olympique Marseille	December 8, 1980	3	0	1	0	0
23	Daniel Ngom Kome	CD Numancia	May 19, 1980	2	0	0	0	0
striker
9	Samuel Eto'o	RCD Mallorca	March 10, 1981	3	1	0	0	0
10	Patrick M'Boma	Sunderland AFC	November 15, 1970	3	1	0	0	0
11	Pius N'Diefi	CS Sedan	5th July 1975	1	0	0	0	0
14th	Joël Epalle	Panachaiki	February 20, 1978	0	0	0	0	0
18th	Patrick Suffo	CD Numancia	17th January 1978	2	0	0	1	0
21st	Joseph-Désiré job	FC Metz	1st December 1977	1	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Winfried Schaefer		January 10, 1950

Preliminary round

Cameroon started the tournament as a secret favorite, but failed in the preliminary round. After the team drew in the first game against Ireland and won 1-0 in the second game against Saudi Arabia, which had been outclassed 8-0 by the German team in the previous game, Cameroon would have won against Germany in the final game have to. Although the team played in the majority from the 40th minute after Carsten Ramelow was sent off , Germany was able to take the lead through Marco Bode in the 50th minute. When Patrick Suffo was also sent off in the 77th minute and Miroslav Klose marked the 2-0 two minutes later, the elimination of the "indomitable lions" was sealed.

Play Cameroon in the preliminary round
date	encounter	Result
June 1st	Ireland - Cameroon	1: 1
6th of June	Cameroon - Saudi Arabia	1-0
June 11th	Cameroon - Germany	0: 2

Final score group E
rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Germany	11: 1	7th
2	Ireland	5: 2	5
3	Cameroon	2: 3	4th
4th	Saudi Arabia	0:12	0