Wome's safety concern
ByReuters
Published 11/10/2005 at 16:14 GMT
Pierre Wome, whose missed penalty cost Cameroon a place in the World Cup finals, says he could have been killed by fans after Saturday's match and that his family is now living under police protection. Ivory Coast progress to the Finals at Cameroon's expe
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"It could have ended very badly indeed," Wome told the Italian news agency ANSA after returning to Inter's training camp on Tuesday. "They wanted to and could have killed me.
"Even though I am a tough lad and I have never been afraid of death, my concern was about the safety of my relatives," added Wome, who joined Inter from Bologna this season after playing in England for Fulham and in Spain for Espanyol earlier in his career.
Wome said that some fans had mistakenly attacked vehicles they thought belonged to him and that his family in Cameroon were now being protected by police.
The defender disputed Cameroon captain Samuel Eto'o's version of Saturday's events in which the Barcelona forward said he had not taken the penalty because Wome wanted to convert it.
"I'm very angry with Eto'o because what he said isn't true," he said. "We did not talk on the pitch but I took into account that he and the captain didn't feel up to it so I went to take it myself given that I was on the list of penalty takers."
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