Cameroon will play Jamaica in a pre-World Cup friendly in November, the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) said on Monday.
Ernest Obama, head of the communications of the FECAFOOT, said it was confirmed by Cameroon’s head coach Rigobert Song at a press conference in Seoul.
The friendly will take place in Cameroon on November 9 and will serve as the traditional farewell match before heading to Qatar for the World Cup, Obama said.
Cameroon lost 2-0 to Uzbekistan in an international friendly last Friday.
South Korea will face Cameroon at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on Tuesday.
Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah completed the sprint double as the Jamaican bagged home the women’s 200m gold at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
Thompson-Herah, 30, has already won the 100m title in 10.95 seconds on Wednesday. She stormed to the 200m finish line first on Saturday, winning in a tournament record time of 22.02 seconds.
Australia’s Oliver Hoare set a new tournament record of three minutes 30.12 seconds to win the men’s 1,500m race.
“It was a very fast race but I have been training for a fast race. It was just about kicking at the right time,” said 25-year-old Hoare.
“I went through on the inside with a lap to go and I saw Jake next to me. And I started to panic because he is the world champion. But I tried to hold my composure.”
Jake Wightman, who won the event at the World Championships last month, took bronze for Scotland in 3:30.53, 0.32 seconds behind Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot.
In the men’s 3m springboard final, England made a podium sweep while Daniel Goodfellow took the gold with a total score of 484.45 points.
Australia won both the women’s 3m synchronized springboard and the women’s synchronized 10m platform.
Kumar Ravi, Vinesh Phogat and Naveen Naveen secured wresting gold for India as the team won half of the gold medals in 12 categories.
Kenya 7s (Shujaa) registered a second successive win to stay in medal contention in the rugby sevens competition at the Commonwealth Games with a comprehensive 45-0 victory over Jamaica in Pool D action at the Coventry Stadium on Friday 29 July 2022.
Nelson Oyoo scored a long range, unconverted try to see Shujaa go 5-0 up before Nelson Onyala, Daniel Taabu and Willy Ambaka landed in quick succession with Johnstone Olindi converting two for a 24-0 lead at the break.
Kevin Wekesa powered his way for a converted try that put Shujaa 31-0 up with further converted tries from Bush Mwale and Alvin Otieno sealing the result.
Up next is a clash against Australia at 12.50pm EAT on Saturday 30 July 2022.
The Kenya men’s national sevens team, Shujaa, will get their campaign at the Commonwealth Games Rugby Sevens competition underway with a match against Uganda.
The two East African sides and neighbours will lock horns at 12.50 pm EAT on Friday 29 July in Birmingham. Shujaa will then take on Jamaica at 8.58pm EAT the same day.
They will wind up their Pool D fixtures with a clash against Australia at 12.50pm EAT on Saturday 30 July.
Shujaa Commonwealth Games Squad Nelson Oyoo (Captain), Herman Humwa, Alvin Otieno, Vincent Onyala, Bush Mwale, Kevin Wekesa , Tony Omondi, Johnstone Olindi , Billy Odhiambo, Edmond Anya , Daniel Taabu, Levi Amunga, Willy Ambaka
Bob Marley is one of Jamaica’s favourite sons, but it is the late musician’s daughter who is hitting the headlines for her part in the nation’s latest sporting success.
Jamaica have become the first Caribbean team to qualify for a women’s football World Cup and it’s Cedella Marley – the first-born daughter of Bob – who the Reggae Girlz have to thank.
In 2010, their team ceased to exist, only for Marley to come on board four years later as an ambassador and sponsor with the Bob Marley Foundation and help turn their fortunes around.
That turnaround was completed in Texas on Wednesday evening, when Jamaica defeated Panama on penalties in the Concacaf Women’s Championship third-place play-off – a feat that has been described in the Jamaican press as “almost super-human”.
Twice Jamaica took the lead over Panama and twice the Central Americans equalised, before Dominique Bond-Flasza scored the winning spot-kick to send the ‘Reggae Girlz’ to next year’s World Cup in France.
“Big up to Cedella Marley for putting her neck on the line for us,” head coach Hue Menzie said after the game.
As fate would have it, their qualification comes on the 20th anniversary of the men’s team reaching their first World Cup, in 1998 – also held in France.
Previously a singer in the family band ‘Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers’, Marley, 51, is now the chief executive officer of her late father’s record label as well as a fashion designer – creating Jamaica’s kit for the London 2012 Olympics.
Eight years ago, the Jamaican Football Federation (JFF) cut funding to its women’s football team, totally disbanding it, leaving the team unranked in the Fifa world rankings due to three years of inactivity.
But in 2014, Marley became the team’s official ambassador and has been working with the Reggae Girlz ever since, while co-lead sponsor Alacran Foundation has also provided what the JFF called “substantial funding” to support the Girlz in their World Cup campaign.
She recently told BBC World Service how she thought the team would become “a very dominant presence” in women’s football, should they ever receive the same amount of investment the nation’s track and field stars receive.
“The Reggae Girlz have held their own against some of the best, mainly on raw talent and passion for the sport,” Marley said.
They will bring that passion to English soil later this month as they play Nottingham Forest Ladies in a friendly on 28 October.
The Reggae Girlz will then turn their attention to next year’s French adventure – but not before plenty of celebrations back home.