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Cameroon has qualified for the FIFA World Cup eight times, more than any other African team. They qualified four consecutive times between 1990 and 2002, and their best result was reaching the quarter-finals in 1990.
François Omam-Biyik scored the only goal in Cameroon's 1-0 victory over defending champions Argentina in the opening game of the 1990 World Cup on the 8th of June in Milan. The result made Cameroon the first African team to defeat a reigning world champion at the tournament.
Cameroon is the first and only African country to defeat Brazil in tournament play, having done so twice by identical 1-0 scores. The first win came on the 13th of June 2003 at the Confederations Cup through Samuel Eto'o's 83rd-minute goal. The second came on the 2nd of December 2022 at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, when Vincent Aboubakar scored in stoppage time.
Cameroon has won the Africa Cup of Nations five times, in 1984, 1988, 2000, 2002, and 2017. Their most recent title came on the 5th of February 2017 when Vincent Aboubakar's goal in the 89th minute defeated Egypt 2-1 in the final.
Samuel Eto'o is Cameroon's all-time top scorer with 56 goals in 118 appearances across a career that ran from 1997 to 2014. Vincent Aboubakar is second with 45 goals, and Roger Milla third with 43 goals.
Marc-Vivien Foé collapsed on the pitch in the 71st minute of Cameroon's semi-final against Colombia at the 2003 Confederations Cup. Medics spent 45 minutes attempting to restart his heart; he was alive on arrival at the stadium's medical centre but died shortly afterwards. An autopsy determined the cause of death was hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an hereditary condition linked to increased risk of sudden cardiac death during physical exertion.