By Awambeng Fuh
Journalist,kick442.com-Cameroon
Cameroon will be represented at the inaugural IFA7 World Championship 2026, with Angu Lesley, Vice President of the Cameroon Association of Seven-a-Side Football, appointed to lead the national delegation to the global tournament in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The maiden edition of the competition is scheduled to begin on May 27, 2026, marking a historic milestone for the growth of seven-a-side football worldwide.
Hosted in Honduras, the tournament will bring together national selections from across multiple continents, with countries already announced including Honduras, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Spain, Indonesia, and Venezuela.
Cameroon’s participation reflects the country’s growing investment in alternative football formats. Since the discipline was introduced locally, administrators have worked to establish structures capable of positioning the nation among the early pioneers of seven-a-side football in Africa.
Recent government support further boosted the federation’s ambitions after the Minister of Sports and Physical Education, Narcisse Mouelle Kombi, held talks with Seven-a-Side Football Confederation president Jacques Bamga in Yaoundé as part of efforts to strengthen the sport’s development.
As head of delegation, Angu Lesley will oversee Cameroon’s presence at the competition, with the country hoping to make an early mark at the first-ever IFA7 World Championship and write its name in the history books of the emerging sport.
The disciplined is already been practiced in four of the ten regions of Cameroon and the players picked by coach Christophe Ousmanou and Martin Nkabyo are expected to enter camp before traveling to the World Cup.
The slogan of the tournament — “One trophy. One vision. A new chapter in football history” — underlines the organizers’ ambition to establish seven-a-side football as a globally recognized discipline.
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