a écrit le 14 février 2007 à 11h08 Tribalfootball.com
Samuel Eto'o refuses to back away from his astonishing attack on Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard and teammate Ronaldinho yesterday.
The fiery Cameroon star said this morning: "It wasn't an explosion. I simply answered honestly the questions that were put to me. That's what you want, isn't it? For people to speak their minds?
"Gentlemen, I won't accept someone saying I am going against the playing group. We have trained 300 times and even when I was injured, I would stand in the rain and support them. And from that we form a family. I know we can't all be friends, but it doesn't excuse you from throwing s*** at your teammate!"
On his relationship with Rijkaard, Eto'o said: "Gentlemen, there will not be a problem between he and I. I won't take anything back. I am only going to say that someone is a bad person or a bad teammate when they mislead.
"With my knee, I need 15 minutes to warm up. Playing at home I can do that on the bicycle. This is why I couldn't go on (on Sunday). But people aren't interested in this. They just want controversy.
"If a teammate is upset with me, then they can say so to my face. I wasn't the one who broke the laws of the dressing room. If I have something to say, I always say it inside the dressing room."
Samuel Eto'o refuses to back away from his astonishing attack on Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard and teammate Ronaldinho yesterday.
The fiery Cameroon star said this morning: "It wasn't an explosion. I simply answered honestly the questions that were put to me. That's what you want, isn't it? For people to speak their minds?
"Gentlemen, I won't accept someone saying I am going against the playing group. We have trained 300 times and even when I was injured, I would stand in the rain and support them. And from that we form a family. I know we can't all be friends, but it doesn't excuse you from throwing s*** at your teammate!"
On his relationship with Rijkaard, Eto'o said: "Gentlemen, there will not be a problem between he and I. I won't take anything back. I am only going to say that someone is a bad person or a bad teammate when they mislead.
"With my knee, I need 15 minutes to warm up. Playing at home I can do that on the bicycle. This is why I couldn't go on (on Sunday). But people aren't interested in this. They just want controversy.
"If a teammate is upset with me, then they can say so to my face. I wasn't the one who broke the laws of the dressing room. If I have something to say, I always say it inside the dressing room."
