Soccer World Cup 2010 / Cameroon

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qualification

The team qualified through the qualifying games of the African Football Association CAF for the World Cup in South Africa .

In the second qualifying round, Cameroon met Cape Verde , Tanzania and Mauritius in Group 1 . In the six scheduled games, Cameroon clearly prevailed and advanced to the next group stage (third round) with five wins and a 0-0 draw against Tanzania.

There the Cameroonian national team met again in Group 1 against Morocco , Gabon and Togo . After Cameroon started as favorites here, too, they qualified as group winners for the World Cup finals.

With Samuel Eto'o (nine hits), Cameroon had the second best scorer in the CAF qualifying games behind Moumouni Dagano (Burkina Faso; twelve hits).

Second round

rank country Gates Points
1 CameroonCameroon Cameroon 14: 2 16
2 Cape VerdeCape Verde Cape Verde 7: 8 9
3 TanzaniaTanzania Tanzania 9: 6 8th
4th MauritiusMauritius Mauritius 3:17 1

May 31, 2008 : Cameroon - Cape Verde 2-0 (1-0)

June 8, 2008 : Mauritius 0-3 Cameroon (0-2)

June 14, 2008 : Tanzania 0-0 Cameroon

June 21, 2008 : Cameroon - Tanzania 2: 1 (0: 0)

September 6, 2008 : Cape Verde - Cameroon 1: 2 (1: 0)

October 11, 2008 : Cameroon - Mauritius 5: 0 (1: 0)

Third round

rank country Gates Points
1 CameroonCameroon Cameroon 9: 2 13
2 GabonGabon Gabon 9: 7 9
3 TogoTogo Togo 3: 7 8th
4th MoroccoMorocco Morocco 3: 8 3

March 28, 2009 : Togo - Cameroon 1-0 (1-0)

June 7, 2009 : Cameroon 0-0 Morocco

September 5, 2009 : Gabon - Cameroon 0: 2 (0: 0)

September 9, 2009 : Cameroon - Gabon 2: 1 (1: 0)

October 10, 2009 : Cameroon - Togo 3: 0 (1: 0)

November 14, 2009 : Morocco 0-2 Cameroon (0-1)

Cameroonian contingent

No. Surname Club before the start of the World Cup birthday Games Gates Yellow card.svg Yellowred card.svg Red card.svg
goalkeeper
1 Carlos Kameni SpainSpain Espanyol Barcelona 02/18/1984 0 0 0 0 0
16 Souleymanou Hamidou TurkeyTurkey Kayserispor 11/22/1973 3 0 0 0 0
22nd Guy N'Dy Assembé FranceFrance Valenciennes FC 02/28/1986 0 0 0 0 0
Defender
2 Benoît Assou-Ekotto EnglandEngland Tottenham Hotspur March 24, 1984 3 0 0 0 0
3 Nicolas N'Koulou FranceFrance AS Monaco March 27, 1990 3 0 2 0 0
4th Rigobert Song TurkeyTurkey Trabzonspor 07/01/1976 1 0 0 0 0
5 Sébastien Bassong EnglandEngland Tottenham Hotspur 07/09/1986 2 0 1 0 0
12 Gaëtan Bong FranceFrance Valenciennes FC 04/25/1988 1 0 0 0 0
14th Aurélien Chedjou FranceFrance Lille OSC 06/20/1985 1 0 0 0 0
19th Stéphane Mbia FranceFrance Olympique Marseille 05/20/1986 3 0 2 0 0
21st Joel Matip GermanyGermany FC Schalke 04 08/08/1991 1 0 0 0 0
midfield player
6th Alex Song EnglandEngland Arsenal FC 09/09/1987 1 0 0 0 0
7th Landry N'Guémo FranceFrance AS Nancy 11/28/1985 1 0 0 0 0
8th Geremi Njitap TurkeyTurkey MKE Ankaragücü December 20, 1978 3 0 0 0 0
10 Achille Emana SpainSpain Betis Seville 06/05/1982 2 0 0 0 0
11 Jean Makoun FranceFrance Olympique Lyon 05/29/1983 3 0 0 0 0
18th Eyong Enoh NetherlandsNetherlands Ajax Amsterdam 03/23/1986 2 0 0 0 0
21st Georges Mandjeck GermanyGermany 1. FC Kaiserslautern December 9, 1988 0 0 0 0 0
striker
9 Samuel Eto'o (C)Captain of the crew ItalyItaly Inter Milan 03/10/1981 3 2 0 0 0
13 Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting GermanyGermany 1. FC Nuremberg 03/23/1989 2 0 0 0 0
15th Pierre Webó SpainSpain RCD Mallorca 01/20/1982 2 0 0 0 0
17th Mohamadou Idrissou GermanyGermany Sc freiburg 03/08/1980 3 0 0 0 0
23 Vincent Aboubakar FranceFrance Valenciennes FC 01/22/1992 2 0 0 0 0
Trainer
FranceFrance Paul Le Guen 03/01/1964

Preliminary round

rank country Gates Points
1 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 5: 1 9
2 JapanJapan Japan 4: 2 6th
3 DenmarkDenmark Denmark 3: 6 3
4th CameroonCameroon Cameroon 2: 5 0

In the preliminary round of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Cameroonian national football team met in Group E against the Netherlands , Denmark and Japan . After losing to Japan and Denmark, Cameroon was the first team in the World Cup to end the World Cup after two games. The last game, which had become meaningless, was also lost, so that Cameroon was one of the two countries that ended the 2010 World Cup without a single point win.

  • Monday June 14, 2010; 16:00 in Mangaung / Bloemfontein Japan - Cameroon 1: 0 (1: 0)
    JapanJapan CameroonCameroon
  • Saturday June 19, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Tshwane / Pretoria Cameroon - Denmark 1: 2 (1: 1)
    CameroonCameroonDenmarkDenmark 

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