By Bakah Derick First Published by www.fecafoot-officiel.com
The Coach of
the Intermediate Lions has admitted that the upcoming Total African Nations
Championship to be staged in Cameroon constitutes a major challenge for him and
his team.
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| Coach Yves Clement Arroga |
On his
evaluation of the first day of training he stated “the session was very good.
It was to see how the players are; how they came from their clubs and I think
we have a very good team and very good players. Certainty they know it will be
very difficult to enter the final list. I think a good number from this first
group will be able to make the list. About 15 players at least I am sure will
make the final list and we will do all to have them win this competition.”
During a
psychological preparation session with the players on the first day in camp,
Coach Yves Clement Arroga after a series of video projected illustrations was
emphatic when he told his boys “I am here to win” explaining that it is for
this reason he will be retaining only the best to represent Cameroon in the
final list at the end of the different pre-selection phases.
He went on
to present his different strategic game plans to the team stating that for
players to be retained, they must be able to understand and implement the plans
with no errors.
“In my club
we train mostly physical fitness but here for the first day we have trained
mostly on technicalities and this I think is because the philosophy of the
coach is technical.” Enow Narcise Bin Adolph Center Forward from Dragon FC
coming for the first time in the den.
Corroborating
Samuel Nlend Offensive Midfielder regular intermediate lion from Union of
Douala noted “The most important is not to be an old player in the team; it is
to score the highest number of points. We are at the beginning of our training
camp and the method our coach has used is more technical unlike my previous call-up
which was more for physical fitness. We play a lot and I think it is a good
initiative for him.”
Other
members of the technical team have also been taking turns to caution the
players on the importance of the championship to the government and people of
Cameroon insisting that anything less than winning is not part of the plan by
the technical staff.
This first
phase training camp will end on December 1, 2019.