Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African football. We want to hear that Africans can do well, and Africans do well.
Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players aren't necessarily very technical, but that when they play, they play to win.
Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.
I was practically born in Cameroon; my family moved there when I was two weeks old.
I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.
We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.
We have a culture at NDSU that's about the team first.
Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.