Word: cameroon
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...will tell President Robert Mugabe that he's gone totally off the rails?" asks Mathatha Tsedu, head of the South African National Editors Forum. When the A.U. gets down to examining the fitness of its own members, it will have to look not just at Zimbabwe but also at Cameroon, Kenya, Liberia, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Swaziland, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), where there are decidedly, as Gaddafi would put it, different styles of "democracy." Perhaps that assessment will even include Libya, where Gaddafi came to power in a 1969 military coup, rules...
...Even at World Cup 2002, Germany's detractors pointed out that the side's route to the final was the easiest possible one. Aside from the plucky Irish?whose captain, Roy Keane, had been ejected from the squad for extreme insubordination?Germany's Group E opponents included an erratic Cameroon and a poor Saudi Arabia. After the group stage, Germany advanced to the final by defeating Paraguay, the U.S. and then Korea, three nations that could hardly be described as major football powers...
...WORST REF Spain's Antonio Lopez Nieto lost all control of the Germany-Cameroon game, issuing yellow cards to 14 players and expelling...
...Even at World Cup 2002, Germany's detractors pointed out that the side's route to the final was the easiest possible one. Aside from the plucky Irish - whose captain, Roy Keane, had been ejected from the squad for extreme insubordination - Germany's Group E opponents included an erratic Cameroon and a poor Saudi Arabia. After the group stage, Germany advanced to the final by defeating Paraguay, the U.S. and then Korea, three nations that could hardly be described as major football powers...
...France, Argentina and Portugal are not the only sides to have provided insufficient entertainment. Overshadowed by the fall of the European and South American giants was the dismal showing by the principal African challengers. Cameroon and Nigeria came into the tournament fully expecting to make the last eight, and perhaps go even further. Nigerian coach Adegboye Onigbinde and Cameroonian captain Rigobert Song each boasted that his side would fulfill, if belatedly, PelE's old prophesy that an African team would win the cup in the 20th century. Instead, both sides suffered early shocks and then exited with bad grace, Cameroon...