Samuel Eto'o
Eto'o in 2011
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| Full name | Samuel Eto'o Fils | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 10 March 1981 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Douala, Cameroon | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Striker | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Antalyaspor | |||||||||||
| Number | 9 | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1992–1996 | Kadji Sports Academy | |||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Real Madrid | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 1997–2000 | Real Madrid | 3 | (0) | |||||||||
| 1997–1998 | → Leganés (loan) | 30 | (4) | |||||||||
| 1999 | → Espanyol (loan) | 0 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2000 | → Mallorca (loan) | 19 | (6) | |||||||||
| 2000–2004 | Mallorca | 120 | (48) | |||||||||
| 2004–2009 | Barcelona | 145 | (108) | |||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Inter Milan | 67 | (33) | |||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Anzhi Makhachkala | 53 | (25) | |||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Chelsea | 21 | (9) | |||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Everton | 14 | (3) | |||||||||
| 2015 | Sampdoria | 18 | (2) | |||||||||
| 2015– | Antalyaspor | 47 | (28) | |||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | Cameroon U23 | 6 | (1) | |||||||||
| 1997–2014 | Cameroon | 118 | (56) | |||||||||
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| 2015–2016 | Antalyaspor (interim player-manager) | |||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 January 2017. |
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Samuel Eto'o Fils (French pronunciation: [samɥɛl eto fis]; born 10 March 1981) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Turkish club Antalyaspor. He is the most decorated African player of all time, having won the African Player of the Year award a record four times: in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2010. He was third in the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 2005.
Eto'o scored over 100 goals in five seasons with Barcelona, and is also the record holder in number of appearances by an African player in La Liga. In 2010, he became the first player to win two European continental trebles following his back-to-back achievements with Barcelona and Inter Milan. He is the second player in history to score in two UEFA Champions League finals and the fourth player, after Marcel Desailly, Paulo Sousa and Gerard Piqué, to have won the trophy two years in a row with different teams.
As a member of the Cameroon national team, Eto'o was a part of the squad that won the 2000 Olympic tournament. He has also participated in four World Cups and six Africa Cup of Nations (being champion twice) and is the all-time leading scorer in the history of the Africa Cup of Nations, with 18 goals. He is also Cameroon's all-time leading scorer and third most capped player, with 56 goals from 118 caps. He announced his retirement from international football on 27 August 2014. In 2015, he received the Golden Foot Award.
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