Councillor Willie Young of Aberdeen City Council in Scotland and Patrice Mpah, the acting president of the Cameroon association in Aberdeen have welcomed the first half of the Cameroon Olympic Team in the UK ahead of the Olympic Games.
On Sunday 15 July in Aberdeen, the Cameroon women`s Olympic football team will face Scotland women`s squad at the Aberdeen Sports Village.
After the Olympic torch fewer it will be an opportunity for football fans to see and appreciate an Olympian team in action.
There are athletes, coaches, managers, physiotherapists and officials. Mr Essama, the head of the Cameroon Olympic team delegation arrived at Aberdeen Airport with a team of around 60 Cameroonians eager to make history at the London Olympic Games.
After their arrival in Scotland, the Cameroon Olympic team members were greeted by the piper and were taken straight to the Aberdeen Sports Village, where the delegation will spend some time before heading down South the Borders for the games. The Aberdeen Sports Village is the premier sports facility in the North East of Scotland hosting an array of first class sporting facilities.
This venture is the realisation of a vision first discussed in 2003 by funding partners, the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen City Council and sportscotland.
The mission is to deliver high quality sport services and it will be a huge opportunity for the athletes to build up their strength, technique and qualities before the games.
Patrice Mpah a father of two and an oil engineer working at one of the Aberdeen oil company has managed with his friends to welcome the delegation and to show some around the City.
Athletes have been accommodated at the Linksfield Road. They are happy with the standard of the facility and can also move around to visit the area and talk to people. Cameroon should be grateful to Aberdeen City Council as they have managed to create a join venture with their partners in order to offer a great opportunity to the Olympians and provide them with a tailored training programmes designed to prepare them for the build up leading to the Olympic campaign.
The false start of the Olympic campaign in UK is the absence of M. Nkwelle Ekaney, the Cameroon High Commissioner or any official from the London`office at the welcoming reception of the delegation in Aberdeen Airport.
It will be very interesting to know if at the London`s office something has been put in place in order to welcome the Olympic delegation.
The official communication around the arrival of the Cameroon Olympic team has failed where citizens`journalism and social media have took over the control of the communication. For more updated infos about the Cameroon`s Olympians, just follow the link here .http://www.okabol.com/
Patrice Mpah ( in pic wearing a blue shirt with friends) who is the acting president of the Cameroon association in Aberdeen has played a huge and important role since the arrival of the Olympic delegation in Aberdeen. People are calling for Patrice Mpah to receive an honour for what he has done since the arrival of the delegation. People in Aberdeen now are showing their deep interest on Cameroon and also on the Cameroon`s culture.
Without any public funding the group has put the strong delegation team members at ease by facilitating their stay while officials in London haven`t managed to travel to Aberdeen.
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