Football - Cameroon: Patrick Mboma on Christain Kofane

In Cameroon, comparisons between Christian Kofane and Samuel Eto'o burst into the public debate after Bayer Leverkusen’s second goal at the AFCON 2025 on Sunday against South Africa (2-1) to send the Indomitable Lions to the quarter-finals. But for Patrick Mboma, the 19-year-old striker still has a mountain of steps to take to reach the level of Eto'o, double champion of Africa and quadruple Ballon d'Or African.

“We’re not going to catch fire, we certainly have a good player, we’re going to hope he becomes a very great player, but the steps to get to Samuel Eto'o are very difficult and very long. Because you are talking about Samuel Eto'o but he is not only a very good player but he is certainly the best African football player in history. So we will take it slow,"

 he advised on New World.