Andre Onana launches scathing rant at Cameroonian football

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Andre Onana criticized the environment surrounding Cameroonian football during a TikTok live stream, highlighting hypocrisy among former players and ongoing tensions within the national team.

Key points

Andre Onana criticized the environment of Cameroonian football
He highlighted hypocrisy among former players
Onana spoke during a TikTok live stream
He mentioned a lack of transparency in the national team
Onana is on loan from Manchester United to Trabzonspor

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Andre Onana launches scathing rant at Cameroonian football

Cameroon goalkeeper Andre Onana, currently on loan from Manchester United at Trabzonspor, has launched a scathing assessment of the “environment surrounding the national” on social media.

Onana doesn’t hold back

While streaming live on TikTok, the 30-year-old shot-stopper criticised the two-faced nature of former Cameroonian players and the tension which always exists around the Indomitable Lions. As explained by Actu Cameroun, Onana took a “direct, blunt, almost brutal” tone in his takedown, pointing towards the “lack of transparency and profound hypocrisy in the rhetoric” around the national team.

“Very few have the courage to criticise publicly. I’ve been around some of the old guard. When you hear them speak in public and you hear them speak off the record, you’d say they were two different people,” he said in a visibly angry tone.

The issue of bonuses and sponsorship was also broached, described as “sensitive” in the report. “You know we went four years without bonuses from top sponsors? Does saying that mean I hate someone?” Onana decried as he lambasted the silence from his peers on the problem.

Actu Cameroun reveals there are “persistent tensions” in Cameroonian football, with accusations of “manipulation, a climate of fear, and a lack of communication” from the authorities.

Onana directly addressed this in his rant: “There’s a price to pay [if you speak out], and they’ll hit you. Then there’s the manipulation, the total disinformation.”

The goalkeeper, who previously enjoyed spells at Ajax and Inter Milan before signing for United, has a chequered relationship with his country’s national team.