ESPN FC’s Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss Switzerland’s 1-0 win over Cameroon and Breel Embolo not celebrating after he scored Switzerland’s only goal on the Gab and Juls Show.
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Fair play to him. He played really well to earn that result
Why is it Switzerland players always score against their country of origin? Shaqiri against Serbia in 2018 and now Embolo against Cameroon in 2022
African Players not representing their country is on a rise. They need to bring a rule where African must represent their countries
Ngannou, Embiid, Embolo. Cameroonians are a strong and proud nation 🇨🇲 🇨🇲 🇨🇲
It was awesome to see Shaqiri and Xhaka be directly involved on Switzerland's first goal of their last World Cup
The Europeans never got over the whole colonizing Africans thing. Imagine how nasty African teams would be if European countries didn’t poach most their talent.
Perhaps he shouldn't be playing for Switzerland, and should instead be playing for Cameroon. Simple.
Who do you send so many pundits to Qatar, if are not even allowed to show highlights of the game???
Good for him he can celebrate how he wants. He may have been born in Cameroon, but his talent was developed & nurtured in Switzerland & that's a fact. If the talent in Africa was endless as people claim they would be doing well without needing the foreign born & foreign based who are now citizens of another.
Wish everyone knew what Embolo means in my home language 😂😂
Harry Kane wears rainbow watch just before match against Iran..hope he wears same watch before England get knocked out in the round of sixteen…
"Powerful"🤪🤪🤪 more like Disgusting
So he uses Switzerland for a paycheque, but is actually Cameroonian. Gotcha.
No, someone who is born in Cameroon and has most if not all of their relatives there is not as much Swiss as someone rotted in Switzerland going back generations.
Why can't he be a Cameroonian living in Switzerland?
This goes for all combinations of course, it's not specific to Camerron and Switzerland.
I've noticed people only feel a certain type of way about it when it's assumed that the person had to have felt forced to leave their homeland for one reason or another. But if we are talking about a brit living in the US or something then it's just a brit living in the US.
Playing for the country that gave him the opportunities in life I understand 100!
You cannot 100% swiss or 100% cameroon. He loves one better but he apreciates the other for what they provide. Its same feeling for many migrants living abroad.
Why do some salty people in the comments always think it’s their choice what country players should play for?🤦🏼♂️🤣
Ngga still a fluke
my team beat France and Spain, they are better than Brazil, I think that on Monday we will beat them.🇨🇭
He scores and then you suddenly remember he is from Cameroon. Nonsense
Lots of people won't understand his feeling, I am a Nigerian/Irish. At that moment, he's got a very confused feeling, happy and guilty feeling, you don't want to hurt either of your country, he was so brave to play the match, not everyone will understand it until you get there, I can't play against Ireland and I can't play against Nigeria, my two great countries, overcoming the trauma if I should score any goal against any of my country is very difficult. I know how he feels, in reality the two goal post are his..
The Cameroon football association has to invest on players best in Cameroon. It's not bad to go for guys that are based in Europe but it becomes difficult once that happens. Mbappé, Umtiti, Saliba, Embolo, Tchouaméni, Moukoko, Armel Bella Kotchap the list goes on. These are players that may have Cameroonian origins and names, but they also grew up outside of Cameroon. You can't get on them for choosing otherwise because Cameroon is not the only thing they know. I can guarantee you that almost all of these players have never even stepped foot in Cameroon. They might eat Cameroonian food or listen to Cameroonian music but for them, the country they play for now represents something different. For all we know, these guys didn't go to school in Cameroon and they didn't learn soccer there either. In my opinion it's more easier to convince someone who grew up for most of their life in Cameroon (including their adolescent years) to play for them because they only know Cameroon at that point. There's no dilemma about how they grew up outside Cameroon despite it being their country of origin so they have to choose between one and the other… no.