Cameroon star says new coach can lure Eto'o

Cameroon hero Roger Milla believes new coach Jean-Paul Akono can persuade striker Samuel Eto'o to return for its decisive African Nations Cup playoff second leg at home to Cape Verde next month.

Cameroon suspended French coach Denis Lavagne following an embarrassing 2-0 first-leg defeat this month and drafted in Akono to try to avoid missing out of a second straight Nations Cup in South Africa in January.

Eto'o, four-time African player of the year, refused to join the Indomitable Lions for the away leg at the unheralded islanders because of what he perceived as the bad management of Cameroon soccer.