Wassougna Souleymanou Hamidou (born 22 November 1973) is a

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

ian former professional

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who played as a

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International career

He was a member of the Cameroonian

2006 African Nations Cup The 2006 Africa Cup of Nations was the 25th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the association football championship of Africa. It was hosted by Egypt. Just like in 2004, the field of sixteen teams was split into four groups of four. Egypt won ...

team, who exited in the quarter-finals. He was again called up to the Cameroon squad for the

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, where he was starting goalkeeper for the three group matches played. This was considered a surprise, because he was selected by

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for this match over the expected keeper,

Idriss Carlos Kameni Idriss Carlos Kameni (born 18 February 1984) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for Andorran club UE Santa Coloma as a goalkeeper. He spent the vast majority of his career in Spain, mainly with Espanyol for whom he appeared in ...

. Cameroon lost all three of the group matches and thus did not qualify to move on to the knockout stage of the competition. He was part of the victorious

2000 African Cup of Nations The 2000 African Cup of Nations was the 22nd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the association football championship of Africa (Confederation of African Football, CAF). It was co-hosted by Ghana and Nigeria, who jointly replaced Zimbabwe as ho ...

squad.

Honors

Cameroon * Africa Cup of Nations runner-up:

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* Africa Cup of Nations:

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