Football celebrity Eto’o spends holiday in Kenya.

Cameroon FA boss Samuel E’too is currently spending his April holiday in Malindi, a coastal town in Kilifi county on the shores of Indian ocean in Kenya together with his family.

1. The number of days in which the African football icon has spent in Malindi are yet to be known and the hotel that him alongside his wife, son and two daughters camped is also yet to be revealed to the public.

Samuel Eto’o Fils was born on10th March 1981 is a Cameroonian football administrator and former player who is the current president of the Cameroonian Football Federation from from 11 December 2021. In his prime, Eto’o was regarded by pundits as one of the best strikers in the world, and he is regarded as one of the greatest African players of all time, winning the African Player Of The Year in a record four times in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2010.

The first African to win two European continental trebles was part of the Inter Milan squad that won the 2010 UEFA Champions League title and was teammate to former Harambee stars midfielder McDonald Mariga who’s currently a politician and is contesting for the Kibra parliamentary seat on a UDA party ticket come on August 9th.

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Eto’o earned his first cap with Cameroon one day before his 16th birthday on 9 March 1997, in a 5–0 friendly loss to Costa Rica. In 1998, he was the youngest participant in the 1998 World Cup when he in appeared in a 3-0 group stage loss to Italy on 17 June 1998, at the age of 17 years and three months.

Eto’o scored his sole goal of the 2002 FIFA World Cup when he netted the game-winner against Saudi Arabia during the group stage on 6 June 2002, which was Cameroon’s only win of the competition.

Eto’o was a part of the squads that won the 2002 and 2002 AFCON titles, and was a gold medalist at the 2000 Olympics. At the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, in which Cameroon finished as runners-up, he scored his only goal in a 1-0 group stage upset of Brazil on 19 June.

Cameroon were eliminated in the quarter-finals of the 2006 AFCON after Eto’o missed the decisive penalty in a 12-11 penalty shootout loss to Ivory Coast following a 1-1 draw, but he nonetheless finished as the top scorer of the tournament with five goals. He missed a team practice before the quarter-finals to attend the CAF African footballer of the year award ceremonies in Togo.

In the 2008 AFCON, Eto’o became joint leading goalscorer in the competition’s history after scoring his 14th goal with a penalty against Zambia on 26 January 2008.

In the following game against Sudan on 30 January, Eto’o converted another penalty to become the tournament’s all-time leading scorer, followed by another goal in the same match that took his AFCON tally to 16. He finished as the top scorer for the second consecutive tournament, matching his 2006 total of five goals.

On 1 June 2008, Eto’o headbutted reporter Philippe Bony following an incident at a press conference. Bony suffered an injury, but Eto’o later apologized for the altercation, offering to pay Bony’s medical expenses. In the 2010 FIFA WC qualifier match against Gabon, Eto’o scored a goal in the 68th minute. He followed it up with another goal in the home fixture. He led the scoring chart with eight qualification goals.

Eto’o scored in the World Cup qualification match against Morocco to win Cameroon a spot in the 2010 FIFA WC tournament. On 19 June 2010, Eto’o scored a goal in Cameroon’s 2010 World Cup group stage match against Denmark, from a mistake by Christian Poulsen Cameroon eventually lost the game 2–1 and was eliminated from the World Cup. Eto’o described it as the biggest disappointment of his career. In December 2010, Eto’o became the first man to be named African Player Of The Year for a fourth time.

On 16 December 2011, Eto’o was suspended 15 games by the Cameroonian Football Federation , after the team refused to play a friendly against Algeria earlier in the year. The ban was reduced to eight months in January 2012, meaning Eto’o would only miss four competitive matches. The change was brought about after Cameroon President Paul Biya asked officials to reconsider the controversial sanction.

On 27 August 2012, Eto’o was in the squad to face Cape Verde in the first leg of a qualification playoff at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, but the striker refused to play, as a protest against what he described as the “amateurish and poorly organised” national team set-up.

After an intervention from Cameroon Prime Minister Philemon Yang Eto’o agreed to return for the second leg. However, Eto’o’s return was not enough for Cameroon to overturn a 0–2 first leg deficit, and the Indomitable Lions failed to qualify for the Cup of Nations.

On 23 March 2013, Eto’o scored his first goal for Cameroon in 16 months with a penalty kick against Togo in a 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifier. He went on to score an 82nd minute winning goal in the same match, sending Cameroon to the top of group. In November 2013, he captained the team in their 4-1 aggregate defeat of Tunisia in the play-off to secure World Cup qualification.

In June 2014, Eto’o was selected in Cameroon’s squad for the 2014 FIFA WorldbCup, becoming the third African to participate in four tournaments after compatriots Jacques Songoo and Rigobert Song, the current head coach of Cameroon national team.

After joining Everton, on 27 August 2014, Eto’o announced his retirement from international competition.