Samuel Eto’o easily recalls the time he first set eyes on his hero. Eto’o was eight years old as he waited inside the stadium in Cameroon’s port city of Douala for a glimpse of Roger Milla training with the national team.
It was a few months before the veteran striker went global at Italia 90 and young Samuel was in position from 8am until 4pm to be sure he would see Milla, who reciprocated with a smile, a wave and a pair of socks tossed over the fence into the hands of Eto’o’s father.
‘It was a long wait but I saw him and I was the happiest kid in the world,’ said Eto’o. ‘He was my hero. It was not only what he did for Cameroon. We all had dreams to become footballers and it was thanks to him people realised for the first time that the African countries could produce the players to go far in a competition like the World Cup.’
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