Tongues are still wagging within the Anglophone media corp in Cameroon following the recent humiliation imposed on CAMASEJ Yaounde chapter by their peers of the North West Region during a friendly football encounter that was played on the green turf of the G.P Stadium, Melen, Yaounde on Saturday July 27 2019. Members of the Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists (CAMASEJ) N.W chapter were in the nation's political capital upon invitation from their colleagues of the Centre region for a safari come together.
The socio-sporting and fun filled safari visit had football on the agenda. It was at 2:30pm that the second division central referee Ismael Ngandifon blew his whistle for kick off. He was assisted by Daniel Meli and Danny Meli with a medical staff on standby from Unite for Health Foundation. The two nurses that got most of the players suspiciously falling just to have their attention were Florence Njang and Lydia Banseka
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| The two contenders |
Prior to the encounter, Angu Lesly, a renowned sports reporter and analyst had made startling revelations that showed that CAMASEJ N.W was going to win Yaounde, this after the host chapter published her line up. To Lesly, administrator of the online sports site www.kick422.com, Viban Jude (CAMASEJ Yaounde chapter president) will lack pace since the shambolic center half pairing of the North West squad was going to use long range passes into the final channels, then Amindeh and Viban were going to be in all sorts of trouble.
Lesly expressed worries in his pre-match analysis. "I can't equally understand the coach's decision to play Mua Patrick (Yaounde city reporter of The Guardian Post Newspaper) as a wing back because he lacks match fitness and has never put in an inch perfect cross" He went on to say "Randy Joe Sa'ah (Publisher of The Voice Newspaper & BBC Reporter) and Ndi Eugene may have a good game but not sure about Mbom Sixtus because I feel he will be exposed."
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| Me and my team mate, the lone queen |
And like a seer, so did it come to pass that just within 10 minutes into the first half, Neba Jerome of the North West chapter netted the first goal to begin the confirmation of Angu Lesly's prophesy. Action will continue and before first half recess, the boys from the North West were up by two goals to zero. Upon resumption for the second half, team captain for the Bamenda Boys, Nji Nelson Chefor alias Mr. Rush collected a beautiful pass from his team mate around the penalty ring of his side and embarked on a do or die mission to shaken the net of his opponents again. Like lightening, before the centre regional boys could decode his mission statement, he had dribbled five of them like a primary school mathematical equation and the Yaounde goalkeeper only came to his senses that he again failed to safe his team from humiliation when he saw the net behind him shaking.
At full time, it was 3 goals for CAMASEJ N.W and one for Yaounde with the biggest surprise being that of the lone lady on the pitch, Mbuh Stella, Equinoxe TV reporter from the N.W who played full time. Talking to the media after the encounter, Ndi Eugene, Chairman of the organising committee on behalf of the host chapter commended the exceptional performance of the "Ground Zero Boys" as the team from Bamenda was nicknamed. He said, "Considering that we are a family and the purpose of this encounter was for camaraderie, I think CAMASEJ won but Bamenda took home the medal"
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| Warm Up |
The victory of CAMASEJ N.W to some pundits, is as a result of the numerous runnings exercises compulsorily carried out each time they are gunshots on the ground. To them, this makes anybody from Bamenda to be automatically sportive.
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