Cameroon's Field of Dreams - Launched June 12, 2012 - Full multimedia experience: audio, stills, text and or video: Go to http://www.zReportage.com to see more - The youth of Cameroon can be seen playing soccer everywhere, whether on the crude fields by the roads or on the vacant lots in the shanty towns, they are obsessed with the game. Cameroon has qualified for the World Cup more than any other African country. 'When I become a soccer star, I would have the ability to help my family, friends, and others in need.' says 'Papy.' Otherwise known as Mintoumou James, Papy age 12 lives in a small house with his family on the mountainside near in Yaounde. Like most boys in Cameroon, he has been playing soccer from an early age, and walks more than half an hour, each way to attend soccer practice. Papy's father earns just $114 USD per month - the only income source of the whole family. Like most parents in Cameroon, he encourages Papy to practice his game, with the hope that his son can be a soccer star like Cameroon's National Team captain Samuel Eto'o.
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Aug. 26, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - PAPY poses with a ball in his arm. Papy is the nickname of MINTOUMOU JAMES, a 12-year-old boy who lives in a small single-story house with his family on the mountainside near Yaounde's zoo. Like most boys in Cameroon, Papy started to play soccer from childhood. He walks more than half an hour to practice in the training center regardless of wind or rain. 'When I become a soccer star, I would have the ability to help my family, friends, and others in need.
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Aug. 19, 2011- Yaounde, Cameroon - Boys play soccer on a vacant lot. No matter on the crude fields by the roads or on the vacant lots in the shanty towns, children and teenagers playing soccer can be seen all over the city.
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Aug. 27, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - Several boys play soccer on a vacant lot of a shanty town.
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Aug. 25, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - PAPY arrives at a soccer field and gets ready to play.
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Aug. 25, 2011 -Yaounde, Cameroon - PAPY plays soccer.
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Aug. 27, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - A discarded polo shirt on a soccer field.
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Aug. 26, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - A girl watches boys playing soccer on a soccer field.
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Aug. 26, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - Several teenagers talk in a snack bar of a shanty town.
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Aug. 21, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - A boy plays soccer on a clay soccer field.
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Aug. 25, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - PAPY plays soccer with friends near home.
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Aug. 25, 2011- Yaounde, Cameroon - PAPY walks to a training center.
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Aug. 27, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - A pair of soccer goalkeeper gloves hang beside the window of a dormitory in Schalom Soccer Training Center.
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Aug. 25, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - PAPY plays checker with soccer stars printed on the board at home.
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Aug. 25, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - Papy takes off his clothes to have a bath after soccer training at home.
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Aug. 25, 2011 Yaounde, Cameroon - PAPY eats lunch at home.
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Aug. 25, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - PAPY fetches water from a well near home.
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Aug. 26, 2011- Yaounde, Cameroon - Papy's sister does up his hair with traditional method.
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Aug. 25, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - PAPY stays with his father at home. Papy's father works in a computer company as a secretary, and his salary of 50,000 FCFA (114 U.S. dollars) per month is the only income source of the whole family. To save money, Papy's father usually gets up early in the morning and spends nearly one hour and a half walking to work. Like most parents in Cameroon, he encourages Papy to practice soccer by buying polo shirts and soccer shoes for him, with the hope that his son can be a soccer star like Samuel Eto'o.
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Aug. 25, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - PAPY plays soccer alone on a vacant lot near home.
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Aug. 17, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - A vendor watches two women's soccer team having a match beside a clay soccer field.
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Aug. 22, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - A goalkeeper stands before the goal on a clay soccer field.
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Aug. 25, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - Two boys wearing slippers play soccer on a path of a shanty town.
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Aug. 25, 2011 - Yaounde, Cameroon - A soccer ball is kicked high in the sky.
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