Contemporary Figure Post:

 
Today the most influential person today in the selected field is Samuel Eto’o. Who is Samuel Eto’o is an African Soccer player from Cameroon that plays in Europe and has accomplished a lot of goals and age 33 he has earned the respect from all the Africans in Africa. Yes he might not be from America, but he represents an entire country and continent every weekend when he plays for his team Chelsea in England. People like these even though he might not be an inventor, a senator or politician, since he was 17 everyone always had faith on him and believed that he would become one of the best forwards in Soccer of all times.

  Playing for big clubs like F.C Barcelona, Real Madrid Inter de Milan, and now Chelsea with 19 accomplishments and 16 of them in Europe is something that it will be difficult to be reached by another African in a few years. If they want to be the next Samuel Eto’o or even better than him this new figure will have to try as hard as they can, have the mentality every single day that he will want to overcome and be someone in life, and have the discipline. But honestly it will take a long time for another player like Eto’o to exist in the world of soccer.

  Samuel Eto’o is another person like Frederick Douglass that does not feel embarrass from where he comes from. He has gone back to his country to help the poor, he has invested in his country by seeing the poverty, and lack of food, clothes, and health care that his own people have to struggle day to day. Samuel was on the same shoes one day when he was little, and today he is paying back and hoping that the little children will have a better and happier life that him while he was growing up in Cameroon.

   Although he has had a lot of arguments with his country federation with the lack of support to his national team, and stated that they have the money to invest but there is corruption and no one does anything to make a change. It is disappointing to see that someone is doing their work out there to represent a whole nation, and when he comes back after all the hard work he has built from scratch for years the people in the federation prefer keeping the money to themselves instead of spending it on what they need. He sometimes tells the media in Europe pretty much the people back home have never cared for all the sacrifices I have made day to day and do not appreciate what I have been doing over here in Europe. If Samuel does not represent and do the job no one will do it, and Cameroon honestly who will know that this country exists.
The goal of Samuel Eto’o is enter into politics and be the next Manny Pacquaio by trying to make a difference in the government.