FIFA decided not to punish Cameroon national team midfielder Gael Ondua, who played the 2022 World Cup match with Switzerland (0:1) in boots with the image of the Russian flag.
“The disciplinary commission knows about this story, but does not see a problem in it. Ondua grew up in Russia. We can say that he is not only from Cameroon, but also from Russia. Therefore, Ondua’s boots are just the flag of his country, ”Marty quotes NRK.
Hondua was born in Cameroon, but lived in the Russian Federation as a child, since his father worked at the Cameroonian embassy in this country. The Cameroonian began his football career in Lokomotiv Moscow and CSKA, but played only for the youth teams of these clubs. From 2017 to 2018, Ondua was listed as a player of Zorya Lugansk, but he never played for the Ukrainian club.