By African Sports Monthly team in Gabon Cameroon did not show up at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations following their failure to book a place from Group E, which Senegal obtained instead. However, the team’s most emblem- atic player and continental soccer icon Samuel Eto’o was eve- rywhere in Gabon during the three-week event. It is no more a secret that the 30-year-old four-time African Football of the Year has privileged ties in the central African country, stretching well to the presidency. Eto’o was seen in the company of Gabon’s president Ali Bongo Odimba three