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A moment with Le Roy, ‘the White witch doctor’

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Claude Le Roy reacts during the 2015 African Cup of Nations group A football match between Equatorial Guinea and Congo at Bata Stadium in Bata on January 17, 2015. [AFP]

Frenchman Claude Le Roy, popularly known as ‘the White witch doctor’ was not the first foreigner to manage a top African team, but when he arrived to coach Cameroon in 1985, he may as well have been Godsend.

One year into his managerial job, he led the Indomitable Lions to a runner-up finish in the 1986 African Cup of Nations, before guiding them to glory in the 1988 competition.

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