Eto'o is first African player- manager in the West

Cameroon football legend, Samuel Etoó has again added an additional feather on his red cap. He has been appointed player-manager of his club Antalyaspor. The star and club captain replaced at short notice Yusuf Simsek, the head coach, sacked by the president of the Turkish club following very poor results.

Although Eto'o is top scorer in Turkey, Antalyaspor is only 10th on the Turkish league table . The boss of Antalyaspor therefore requested the Cameroonian to take the reins of the technical staff and make his teammates benefit from his large and imposing experience in the beautiful game while he looks for a possible replacement of Simsek. Eto'o has started work together with the assistant of the former coach of Antalyaspor Mehemet Ugurlu with the aid of an interpreter.