The Cameroon and Tanzanian governments have appointed new national coaches to take charge of their men’s teams.
In Cameroon, Clarence Seedorf is now the head coach of the Indomitable Lions, Cameroon’s national football team.
Cameroon’s Ministry of Sports made the announcement on Saturday. The recruitment of the former Dutch star, ends a long controversy over the succession of Hugo Broos who led Cameroon to the continental title at the 2017 CANtournament in Gabon.
Seedorf will be assisted by Dutch coach Patrick Kluivert.
Clarence Seedorf, 42, is a renowned figure in international football. He had an intense career at the top of European football and coached AC Milan and then Deportivo La Coruna.
His assistant, Patrick Kluivert was Louis van Gaal’s assistant at the 2014 World Cup with the Netherlands.
Yaounde will host the next competition in 2019 and preparations are already underway.
The 2017 Africa cup of nations champions bid farewell to Hugo Broos who departed at the end of his contact in February, 2018.
Alexandre belinga took charge of the team while search for a new coach was made public.
And in Tanzania, Ex-Nigeria international Emmanuel Amuneke has been appointed head coach of the national team.
The 1994 African footballer of the year will now be in charge of the Taifa Stars and will work to help his team get their Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign back on track.
The 47-year-old signed a two-year deal to take over from Salum Mayanga, who was shown the way out due to poor results.
Following Tanzania’s bad run of form, Amuneke’s first priority will be to get the Taifa Stars’s into a good position to qualify for the next year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.
Before his appointment, Amuneke was an assistant coach at Saudi Premier League side Al-Hazm and left to be a scout for Manchester United. Amunike took over the head coaching duties at Julius Berger, a local club in Nigeria in 2008.
The 1994 African Cup of Nations winner then went on coaching courses in Europe. He became coach of Sudanese clubside, Al Khartoum SC in November 2017, and left in March 2018.
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