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By Tansa Musa

YAOUNDE, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Cameroon have left eight players
involved in the World Cup out of their squad for next week’s
friendly against Poland.

The squad was named by former goalkeeper and deputy national
coach Jacques Songo’o but the Cameroon football association
(FECAFOOT) said a new coach would be named shortly.

“We should have a new coach latest Monday next week,”
FECAFOOT spokesman Martin Etonge said on Tuesday.

Former captain Rigobert Song retired from international
football on Sunday after playing for Cameroon 137 times.

“I took the decision to give up international football even
before the World Cup in South Africa because it is good to leave
things before they leave you,” Song said.

“I have decided to stop playing for the national team
because I think I have put in all I have … I am leaving the
national team with pride,” he added.

Cameroon failed to earn a point at the World Cup in South
Africa and coach Paul Le Guen quit after the tournament.

Goalkeepers Carlos Kameni and Souleymanou Hamidou, veteran
defender Geremi Njitap, midfielders Alexandre Song, Landry
Nguemo and Achille Emana, and strikers Achille Webo and
Mohamadou Idrissou were also left out.

Stephane Bikey, Henri Bedimo, Marcel Ndjeng, Patrick
Tignyemb and Jacques Zoua, who missed the South African
expedition, returned to the squad.
(Writing by David Lewis; Editing by Ed Osmond; to query or
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