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Samuel Eto'o Fils () (born 10 March 1981) is a
Cameroonian professional
footballer who plays as a
striker for
Italian Serie A club
Internazionale. He is also the current
captain of the
Cameroon national team. He also holds a
Spanish passport, enabling him not to count among the "foreign players" working in the
European Union.
Eto'o scored over 100 goals in five seasons with
FC Barcelona, and is also the record holder in number of appearances by an
African player in
La Liga. In 2010, he became the first player to win two European
Continental Trebles following his back-to-back achievements with Barcelona and Internazionale. He is the second player to have ever scored in two separate
UEFA Champions League finals and the fourth player, after
Marcel Desailly,
Paulo Sousa, and
Gerard Piqué, to have won the UEFA Champions League two years in a row with different teams. He is the most decorated African player of all time having won the
African Player of the Year award a record four times in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2010.
As a member of the
Cameroon national team, he was a part of the squad that won the
2000 Olympic tournament; he has participated in three
World Cups and six
African Nations Cups (being champion twice) and is the all-time leading...
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