Song attacks Onana in a video: ‘Who is he not to talk to me?’

The outburst is private. In a video released without his consent. But the words of Rigobert Song, coach of Cameroon at the Qatari World Cup and former defender of Salernitana (1998: 4 games and one goal), are a frontal attack on André Onana, Inter goalkeeper, removed from the team after the first game, for (1-0) with Switzerland.

“On the day of the match against Serbia, I told Onana that I needed to talk to him – says the coach – and he started crying. I told him: ‘I don’t have time to talk about these things, I called you yesterday and you didn’t come to talk to me. Am I speaking to Aboubakar, Choupo-Moting and Anguissa who are the most representative players of the team and I cannot speak to you?’”.

WORK OUT

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Song’s words also explain the proximate cause of the clash: “In training Onana puts on a show, he takes too many risks on the pitch. I repeated it to him: ‘You don’t have to risk it, send back to the sides of the field, not in the middle’. And he replied: ‘I’m playing, I don’t have time to talk to you’”. Instead of coming to the hotel to talk to me, he went to see President Samuel Eto’o. And the president sent him… I don’t know where”.

REPLICA

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Yesterday the Inter goalkeeper made a quote from George Orwell on social media (“In a world where everyone lies, anyone who tells the truth is a revolutionary. But time will put everything in its place”) which read today seems like a reply to the coach . Who in what now seems like a long-distance dispute replied: “Given the uproar aroused by the dissemination of this private conversation, I must specify that I was forced to make an important decision in respect of the group after my honor as coach was violated of the Indomitable Lions (nickname of the Cameroon national team)”.