The Cameroon women's soccer team taking part in the African Women's Rugby Championship 2024 in Madagascar lost their opening match (00 - 55) to the South African team this weekend. The Indomitable Lions, who entered the competition in an atmosphere of uncertainty, must now work hard to assert themselves.
The Indomitable Lions fall to the South Africans.
The heavy handicap conceded by the Cameroon women's team (00 - 55) against the South Africans in their first match at the African Women's Rugby Championship, held in Madagascar since May 4, is no longer a secret to observers of the sport in Cameroon. For it is the consequence of a moribund management of the sport in general. The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon's women's rugby team fell to the South Africans in their opening match.
The Lionesses will have to give their all in the remainder of this competition, held in Madagascar as a qualifying tournament for the Rugby World Cup, which is fast approaching. In this African championship, Cameroon shares the same pool with hosts Madagascar, Kenya and its tormentor South Africa, who are gradually positioning themselves among the top African teams in this competition.
Sport in general is in a bad way in Cameroon
But how are we to understand this heavy defeat for the Indomitable Lions of rugby? To answer this question, we must first recognize that sport is not doing well in Cameroon. If the rugby lionesses are taking part in African competitions despite their defeat, we have to recognize that other sports federations shine through inertia and sometimes fail to recognize the efforts of athletes who work for long years only to miss competitions through simple negligence on the part of their leaders. Examples include the African Games, where Cameroon missed out on soccer despite qualifying, and handball at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Hungary, where the problem of obtaining visas is just one example.
As a reminder, the heavy handicap conceded by the Cameroon women's rugby team in their opening match against the South Africans at this competition in Madagascar is nothing other than the true level of Cameroonian sport, where everything is done to destabilize the real workers for personal gain. The Indomitable Lions left Cameroon on May 01, 2024 to take part in this ongoing competition, and will face Kenya and Madagascar in the coming days.
J. Patrick DJON
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