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Mid-Day Ticker: Cameroon bans Eto'o, Everton keeps Barkley and more

Soccer By Ives 16 December @ 04:30 PM EDT Blog Details : Related Items
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Not even one of the faces of African soccer is immune to punishment of the harshest kind.

The Cameroonian Football Federation banned captain and star forward Samuel Eto'o 15 matches for his role in a players' strike last month. Eto'o can appeal the punishment over the course of the next two weeks, but if it is upheld, the ban could signal the end of the 30-year-old Eto'o's international career, considering the length of the ban and the bad blood between player and federation.