On June 20th, A Spanish court found former Cameroon international Samuel Eto’o guilty of tax evasion after he admitted to to tax fraud of $4million during his spectacular career at FC Barcelona between 2004-2009. Eto’o received a 22-month suspended sentence and a $1.9million fine after failing to declare income from transfer and image rights during that period. The prosecutor had initially requested for a 10-year sentence but it was reduced to 22 months after he paid his tax debt of about $2.1million.
And the once vocal football official has since gone silent, despite the initial burst of positive energy he had injected in the cumulative fight against FIFA’s Colonialism of African football by President Gianni Infantino.
With his impeccable credentials as a bonafide football legend, Samuel Eto’o injected a fresh impetus in the waning voices defending African football, many of whom have fallen by the wayside or been bribed into submission by the new political establishment headed by CAF President Patrice Motsepe and his extensive propaganda apparatus.
Ever since Liberia’s Musa Hassan Bility and Guinea Bissau’s Manuel Nascimento were banned in rapid succession for not complying with FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s demented agenda for African football, other FA presidents have been subdued into silence, and well-compensated for their treachery and betrayal towards the African agenda. FA Presidents run their associations with impunity, using FIFA subventions and other revenue streams accrued from sponsorship and gate-takings as their personal finances, constantly flying around to premier destinations on FIFA’s tab and gorging themselves in utopic luxury with reckless abandon.
The irony is not lost on observers that the engineer and orchestrator of bans against African FA Presidents Gianni Infantino, is himself illegally in office, following the opening of criminal proceedings against him, currently being overseen by two extraordinary prosecutors in Switzerland. Gianni Infantino should be under suspension if the same parameters used to ban Manuel Nascimento were applied equally by the compromised FIFA Ethics Chamber. But this is FIFA where rules are enforced based on skin colour.
Over and above that, a recent ruling by the Criminal Court in Bellinzona which found former UEFA President Michel Platini and former FIFA President Sepp Blatter not guilty of a disloyal payment, the basis through which Infantino ascended into the presidency, should have precipitated his removal from office since he capitalized on the manufactured predicaments of the two supremo’s to hoodwink his naive and mentally-impotent UEFA voting-bloc, into endorsing his presidential bid down to the last man.
Indeed, UEFA bear ultimate responsibility for propping up a criminal like Gianni Infantino who through an extensive MAFIA structure of collaborators within the Swiss Judiciary, engineered a fictitious criminal case against the very person who gave him a job and introduced him to the world of football with no honour or shame. One could argue that Europeans and their natural instinct to conquer and destroy, consciously foisted Infantino to the world of football stage, knowing that he would extend the culture of colonial dominance over an inferior continent and race, so as to maintain European football’s dominance over the world.
The natural European imperative is one of cognitive dissonance where in public they preach inclusivity and kneel before match kickoff masquerading as Black Lives Matter activists, but in private they’re handing endorsement letters for Gianni Infantino’s re-election bid, so that he can continue colonising and destroying African football on their behalf. The white man has never wished for a prosperous Africa and in Gianni Infantino, the racist UEFA establishment have found a comrade & kindred spirit whose narcissistic interests align with their broader objectives to destroy African football.
UEFA and their media cohorts nearly broke the internet when it emerged that a couple of clubs wanted to do the very thing that they’ve been doing to the rest of the world for decades; primitive accumulation of wealth from many to a few hands through the European Super League. Not to be outdone was the political establishment who swung into action, spewing cheap and empty rhetoric purporting to reign into the excesses of the dominant clubs, yet they remain suspiciously silent regarding the economic genocide being inflicted on African football by Gianni Infantino.
One may wonder how UEFA benefits from the destruction of African football; well, with no domestic leagues to follow, UEFA has filled the vacuum and capital flight is now at its peak as Africans watch European football, bet on those games and in some extreme cases, African companies and governments are sponsoring their teams. With a dead African football ecosystem European football can select and retain the best talent from the African continent for a song. So FIFA’s endeavour to destroy African football has UEFA blessings despite artificial conflict undertones between Gianni Infantino and Aleksander Ceferin.
The biggest threat to this unholy-alliance of racism and appropriation of African football capital to the Europeans was none other than Samuel Eto’o Fils who despite being of African descent, possessed mannerisms, credentials and orientation of a European, bringing to the table an extensive bandwagon of media groupies who blew up around the same time as he did. And faced with this existential threat, they had to clip his wings and engineer a ruling at the Spanish court through their MAFIA cohorts, which would buy his silence for good.
Now Eto’o has been reduced to a lame duck, paraded at CAF events by CAF President Patrice Motsepe for cheap brownie points but nowhere near the decision making table. Indeed a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) memo from lawyer William Sternheimer/Morgan Sports Law (attached below) already alluded to the illegitimacy of Samuel Etoo’s presidency as his Spanish tax evasion conviction saw him excluded from an on-going appeal.
The only reason FIFA haven’t adopted an aggressive approach towards Eto’o is his legend status, as Infantino has endured intense criticism for antagonising bonafide football royalty like Michel Platini, Zvonimir Boban and converting The House of FIFA into a quasi law-firm, where there are currently more lawyers than people whose roots were originally from football. In Africa for instance, he’s propped up a suspicious “billionaire” who never talks about football but is so obsessed with money, as a quick-fix panacea as opposed to structural and regulatory reforms.
Patrice Motsepe is busy shuttling from country to country in Africa, building consensus within the ranks of heads of state, to endorse his bid as the next Chairman of African National Congress (ANC) and subsequently President of South Africa. South Africans in their infinite stupidity thanks to a prolonged period of brainwash and social-programming under white rule, seem to be excited at these prospects and we can’t blame them. As other countries were fighting for independence in the 40’s and 60’s, South Africans only realised they needed it in the late 80″s. And even their so-called “liberator” Nelson Mandela only created a facade, but retained black capital and land in white people’s hands.
But going by his absentee status as CAF President, Patrice Motsepe’s reign as South African president will be worse than apartheid. One can only sympathise with citizens of that country.