Eurosport - Dutchman Arie Haan has quit as
Cameroon coach less than six months into a two-year contract, according to
the country's official Cameroon Tribune daily.
The paper quoted Haan, whom national soccer federation FECAFOOT said went
absent without leave for two months last year, as saying he had offered his
resignation to FECAFOOT chief Jean Lambert Nang.
"I have decided as from this day the 31st of January 2007 to put an end to
my collaboration with Cameroon. I have sent an email to Mr. Nang, the
general manger of FECAFOOT, to inform him," the paper quoted Haan as saying.
Nang and other FECAFOOT officials could not be reached for immediate
comment.
The Tribune said Haan was unhappy he had been left out of a delegation that
was following Cameroon's youth team at an African junior championship.
He had also opposed a friendly match scheduled for February 7 against Togo,
preferring to play a stronger team such as Ivory Coast.
Haan signed a two-year contract last August, charged with steering the
Indomitable Lions through their qualifying campaign for the 2008 African
Nations Cup in Ghana.
But relations with FECAFOOT quickly soured, and in December Nang said Haan
had disappeared for two months in contravention of a contractual clause
stipulating he must remain resident in Cameroon.
