50 Top Soccer Player their trade today, based on a combination of current form, potential and overall ability. Ranking determined by a panel of contributors to ESPN's soccer.
Samuel Eto'o Rank Player 13
Birth name Samuel Eto'o Fils
Birth date March 10, 1981
Birth place Nkon, Cameroon
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 75kg
Playing position Striker
National team Cameroon
Current club Anzhi Makhachkala
Number 99
Previous Teams Real Madrid, Leganes, RCD Espanyol,RCD Mallorca.
amuel Eto'o is a Cameroonian footballer who plays as a striker for Russian team Anzhi Makhachkala. He is also the current captain of the Cameroon national team. Eto'o trained at Kadji Sports Academy. He also holds a Spanish passport, enabling him not to count among the "foreign players" working in the European Union. Eto'o scored over 100 goals in five seasons with FC 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 Internazionale. He is the second player to have ever scored in two separate UEFA Champions League finals and the fourth player, after Marcel Desailly, Paulo Sousa, and Gerard Piqué, to have won the UEFA Champions League two years in a row with different teams. 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. As a member of the Cameroon national team, he was a part of the squad that won the 2000 Olympic tournament; he has participated in three World Cups and six African Nations Cups (being champion twice) and is the all-time leading scorer in the history of the African Nations Cup, with 18 goals.
Lacks the searing pace of earlier years, but still one of the world's finest goal scorers. Often glides into the box and finishes calmly. Presses defenders high all across the field.
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