SAMUEL ETO'O A BRILLIANT AND BLEMISHED CAREER

Samuel Eto'o's Cameroon career will be remembered as both brilliant and blemished.

The 33-year-old made his debut for the Indomitable Lions in 1997, aged just 15, and announced his retirement from internationals on Tuesday.
In the intervening 18 years - more than half of his life - he experienced the highs of winning titles as part of a toothsome and dangerous pride but also deep lows in recent times as Cameroon became a ragged outfit both on and off the pitch.
As the Indomitable Lions fortunes have waned, Eto'o's reputation has taken some damaging blows - often self-inflicted as the striker's behaviour was frequently the antithesis of what was expected after he became captain in 2009.
The new Everton striker's greatest international achievements came when he was surrounded by quality players in the Cameroon side: the likes of Patrick Mboma, the late Marc-Vivien Foe, Geremi Njitap, Lauren Etame Mayer and even Rigobert Song.
In those halcyon days, the team mixed brute physical strength with tactical discipline and Eto'o's clinical finishing - he is his country's all-time leading scorer with 54 goals - helped clinch Africa Cup of Nations titles in 2000 and 2002.