Since Brys’ arrival, Fecafoot and Cameroon’s ministry of sport have been at loggerheads over the legality and legitimacy of the 63-year-old’s contract.
However he’s not the primary supervisor dismissed by Eto’o’s regime.
Having first been elected to Fecafoot’s top job in December 2021, the previous Barcelona and Inter Milan ahead quickly oversaw the dismissal of Portuguese boss Toni Concecaio, who had guided Cameroon to a third-place end on house soil on the 2021 Afcon, regardless of opposition from the ministry.
One other Cameroon legend, Rigobert Track, was instantly appointed as Conceicao’s substitute – under the instructions of the country’s President Paul Biya.
Strongly rumoured to even be Eto’o’s alternative, Track led his nation on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar – which Onana departed early after being suspended by Fecafoot – however a poor displaying on the final Afcon in Ivory Coast ended the previous West Ham and Liverpool defender’s time in cost.
The sports activities ministry’s alternative of Brys as Track’s substitute was met with “great astonishment” at Fecafoot.
Lower than two months later, the Belgian was removed following a heated row with Eto’o – solely to be reinstated two days later because the federation president apologised.
With Brys’ latest failure to qualify his staff for subsequent 12 months’s World Cup, having misplaced to Dr Congo within the African play-offs, it now appears to be like as if Eto’o has lastly bought his approach.
Nevertheless, it stays to be seen whether or not the ministry, which pays the pinnacle coach’s wage, will acquiesce to Fecafoot and Eto’o on this event. The BBC has been instructed that, for now, it has nothing to say.
“It is tough to see how a brand new supervisor will be capable of put collectively a taking part in system, create an avenue the place the gamers can specific themselves fluently on the pitch and play as a unit,” Cameroonian analyst Njie Enow instructed BBC Sport Africa.
Regardless of the final result on the pitch, Fecafoot’s allegations of misconduct and the dismissal of Brys simply weeks earlier than a serious match is merely the newest in a sequence of dramatic occasions below Eto’o’s stewardship, which has been marked by a spread of scandals and opposition from native soccer stakeholders.
