The former superstar of African football and now president of the Cameroonian football federation Samuel Eto’o owes nearly a million euros to the Spanish tax authorities, his name appearing on the list of “debtors” to the public finances according to a report published Monday, December 27 and consulted by AFP. The 40-year-old former Indomitable Lions striker played from 2004 to 2009 at FC Barcelona. In November 2016, the Spanish public prosecutor’s office had requested against the Cameroonian penalties representing a total of ten years in prison and a fine of 18 million euros, accusing the player of not having paid 3.9 million euros drawn of his image rights during his period at Barça. Entitled “list of debtors”, the document brings together thousands of individuals and companies with a “debt greater than 600,000 euros” with the Spanish tax authorities, a threshold revised downwards compared to the old limit of one million. . The list therefore features more names, with a total of over 7,200 in 2021 compared to around 3,400 in 2020. By September 2020, Neymar, the Brazilian star of Paris Saint-Germain, had become the worst “deadbeat” in the world. Spanish tax authorities with a debt in the amount of 34,624,268.60 euros.