The Court of Arbitration for Sport rejects the appeal filed by the Cameroonian Football Federation regarding the dispute with its former coach, Antonio Conceicao. At the same time, confirms FIFA’s decision ordering FECAFOOT to pay severance pay to the Portuguese coach.
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Antonio Conceicao is a Portuguese national coach. He was appointed President of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon in September 2019 by the Minister of Sports and Physical Education, for a period of two years. Thanks to the change at the helm of the presidency of the Cameroonian Football Federation on December 11, 2021, Samuel Eto’o decided upon his arrival to change the coach. So on February 28, 2022, six months before Conceicao’s contract expired, the latter was fired. He was replaced by Rigobert Song who became the chosen director.
This is how the Portuguese decides to take the case to FIFA for justice. After 7 months, the FIFA Players’ Status Committee ordered FECAFOOT to pay Antonio Conceicao €1.6 million. The Federation takes note and turns to the CAS to appeal. On 8 May, the CAS decision finally overturned, confirming FIFA’s decision.
CAS decision
“The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne confirmed on May 8, 2023, the first decision of the FIFA Players’ Status Committee,” we read in a press release published by the FIFA Secretary General on Thursday. the Union. FECAFOOT in its press release, “reserves the right to seek redress before the Swiss Federal Court.”
As a reminder, in 23 matches at the helm of the Indomitable Lions, the Portuguese technician has achieved 14 wins, 6 draws and only 3 defeats. Antonio Conceicao notably led Cameroon to third place in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations organized on home soil.
