FORMER Chelsea star Geremi has landed a five-year ban from football – after a dispute with fellow ex-Blue Samuel Eto’o.
The Cameroon international won Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006 while at Stamford Bridge.
Midfielder Geremi also played for Middlesbrough, Newcastle and Real Madrid.
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The 46-year-old has headed the Cameroon players’ union Synafoc in recent years.
But the West African country’s FA, Fecafoot, has now banned him from football until 2030, as well as fining him £13,000.
Ex-Chelsea, Everton, Barcelona and Inter Milan star Eto’o, 44, is president of the association.
Their dispute dates back to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in the Ivory Coast, when Geremi is said to have had a dressing-room row with one of Eto’o’s staff.
Fecafoot’s ethics committee announced: “We declare Geremi Sorel Njitap, the president of Synafoc, guilty of breaking the behaviour rules of our code of ethics.
“We sentence him to a ban from all forms of football activity for five years, and to a fine of ten million West African francs [£13,000].
“He has ten days to submit a written appeal.”
Geremi’s assistant Daniel Blaise Ngos has meanwhile been banned for two years and fined £6,500 for his part in the dispute.
The midfielder won 118 caps for Cameroon, scoring 13 goals for the Indomitable Lions
He helped them win Olympic gold in 2000, as well as two Africa Cups of Nations.
A La Liga winner with Madrid in 2001, he also played for clubs in Paraguay, Turkey and Greece.
He infamously split from wife Laure last year after DNA tests showed the two children he thought were his were fathered by her ex.
