Jean Manga Onguéné: Cameroon legend's remains return to Yaoundé, Roger Milla pays tribute

The remains of Jean Manga Onguéné arrived at Yaoundé-Nsimalen airport on the evening of Tuesday 20 October. The Cameroon legend died in Paris on 6 October, aged 80, after an illness.

Sports ministry inspector general Michel Dissake Mbarga, Roger Milla, football officials and former Canon Yaoundé players attended a religious service at the airport, according to 237online and Cameroon Tribune. The family has not yet announced the funeral programme.

Manga Onguéné was the 1980 African Footballer of the Year, a three-time African club champion with Canon Yaoundé, played at the 1970 and 1972 Africa Cup of Nations, and later coached the Indomitable Lions.