The retired Cameroon footballer Samuel Eto’o has been filmed showing to knee a person within the face outdoors a World Cup stadium in Qatar.
Eto’o, 41, was concerned within the altercation after Brazil’s 4-1 last-16 victory over South Korea final night time.
Footage exhibits Eto’o, who’s president of the Cameroonian Football Federation, surrounded by followers as he walks away from Stadium 974 in Doha.
In the clip, filmed by La Opinion, a Spanish-speaking information web site based mostly in Los Angeles, Eto’o is then approached by a person carrying a small digital camera and microphone.
After initially strolling away, Eto’o walks again in the direction of the person to confront him.
The man, who continues recording the incident on his personal machine, makes an attempt to again away from a visibly indignant Eto’o, who’s held again by passers-by.
The footage then exhibits Eto’o breaking via and approaching the person once more, earlier than showing to knee him within the face.
He is pulled away from the incident as the person’s digital camera is thrown to the bottom.
In a self-recorded video mentioned to have been taken in a police station after the incident, the person, understood to be from Algeria, claims he had requested the footballer for {a photograph} when he “came towards me and hit me”.
A former Real Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan and Chelsea star, Eto’o is broadly thought to be among the finest African footballers of all time.
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He scored 56 objectives in 118 video games for Cameroon, serving to them to 2 African Cup of Nations trophies and an Olympic gold in 2000.
He additionally received 4 Champions League titles, three La Liga titles and quite a few home cups.
Eto’o retired in 2016 and was appointed as head of the soccer federation final December.
Sky News has approached the federation for a remark.
Eto’o has been out in Qatar watching his nationwide facet, who did not make it previous the group stage regardless of beating Brazil, the favourites, 1-0.
Source: information.sky.com”