Cameroonian football is in mourning. In the last hours the death of Landry Nguemothe midfielder who spent much of his career in the Ligue 1 and lost his life at 38 years old in a traffic accident near YaoundéThe former player of the African national team came to defend the shirt of The Indomitable Lions in 42 commitments and converted three goals. During his time at the national representative, he left an indelible mark for his colleagues, who said goodbye to him with deep pain on social networks.
Nguemowho spent ten years of his career in the French league, was fondly remembered by the AS Saint-Etienne, one of his old teams. “Landry Nguemo left us. Too soon, too suddenly. ASSE mourns one of its own. To all his loved ones, we send our most sincere condolences.”, the European entity said in a statement published on its official channels. In the same vein, the authorities of the Girondins de Bordeaux They also shared their sadness and mourned the loss of the former midfielder who had retired from professional practice in 2020.
The tragic accident occurred a few kilometers from Yaounde, the political capital of Cameroon. The accident occurred when the car in which the former footballer was travelling, driven by his chauffeur who also died on the spot, hit a truck transporting sand. Immediately, the country’s greatest sports legend, Samuel Eto’o, who currently serves as president of the Cameroonian Football Federation expressed his dismay on his official Instagram account. “Sadness“, wrote the former striker alongside a photo with the man who was once his teammate in the national team.
Nguemo was trained in the AS Nancy-Lorraine, where he signed his first professional contract at the age of 19 years. Throughout his career, he played for the Girondins de Bordeaux and the Saint-Etiennein addition to competing in the Turkish league (Kayserispor and Akhisar Belediye) and in the Norway (Kongsvinger). At the end of his career, he returned to Nancy to work as a coach in the youth categories.
With 17 calls for friendly matches, 16 presentations in the African Cup of Nations, 7 matches played for World Cup Qualifiershis greatest frustration occurred when he was part of that team that did not meet the objective and was left out of the World Cup that he organized. Germany in 2006. For that meeting, the African squares were occupied by Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Togo, Angola and Ghana. In the edition of Russia 2018, The Indomitable Lions They would once again be left out of the most important competition on the planet.
In the 2012/13 season got with him Girondins de Bordeaux celebrate one of the two titles he won throughout his career, when he raised the French Cupsince the previous one had been with the Nancy Lorraine in the year 2006 when he conquered the French League Cup.
