{"id":796227,"date":"2024-06-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/?p=796227"},"modified":"2024-06-08T00:45:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T00:45:42","slug":"marc-brys-our-staff-and-players-are-apolitical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/cameroon\/marc-brys-our-staff-and-players-are-apolitical","title":{"rendered":"Marc Brys: \u201cOur staff and players are apolitical\u201d."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Marc Brys, the coach of the Indomitable Lions, assured in a press conference on Friday that both the staff and players are apolitical.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> In his first pre-match press conference as head of the Cameroon national team, Marc Brys addressed his critics. Facing journalists at the Fecafoot headquarters, the coach stated that they are not involved in politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/image-13-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-796228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/image-13-15.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/image-13-15-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/image-13-15-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8220;We are apolitical, both the staff and the players. We are just doing our job, and we ask you to let us do our job because that&#8217;s what&#8217;s most important. We remain focused and unafraid,&#8221; he declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This statement comes amidst the current crisis between Fecafoot and the Ministry of Sports. The 61-year-old Belgian is accused of being a tool for Narcisse Mouelle Kombi, the Minister of Sports who appointed him before he was confirmed by Samuel Eto&#8217;o Fils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Brys, the coach of the Indomitable Lions, assured in a press conference on Friday that both the staff and players are apolitical. In his first pre-match press conference as head of the Cameroon national team, Marc Brys addressed his critics. Facing journalists at the Fecafoot headquarters, the coach stated that they are not involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":796229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508],"tags":[1266,45],"class_list":["post-796227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cameroon","tag-marc-brys","tag-players"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/nouveau-format-pour-site-bi-88.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfmZoa-3l8n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796230,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796227\/revisions\/796230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}