He is one of the greatest players that ever lived; sadly he has never won the World Footballer of the Year award, the reason for this and his only sin sadly is he was born in Africa (We know George Weah has won it), looking at the least below we are forced to asked did they do more Than Samuel Eto in World Football, even though it was different season.

1993 / Roberto Baggio
1995/ George Weah
1999 / Rivaldo
2005 / Ronaldino
2006/ Fabio Cannavaro
2007/ Kaka

Eto'o scored over 100 goals in five seasons with FC Barcelona, and is also the record holder in number of appearances by an African player in La Liga.[5] In 2010, he became the first player to win two European Continental Trebles following his back-to-back achievements with Barcelona and Internazionale. He is the second player to have ever scored in two separate UEFA Champions League finals and the fourth player, after Marcel Desailly, Paulo Sousa and Gerard Piqué, to have won the UEFA Champions League two years in a row with different teams.[6] He is the most decorated African player of all time having won the African Player of the Year award a record four times in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2010. He is the first ever player to win two trebles back to back.

As a member of the Cameroon national team, he was a part of the squad that won the 2000 Olympic tournament; he has participated in three World Cups and six African Nations Cups (being champion twice) and is the all-time leading scorer in the history of the African Nations Cup, with 18 goals.

He deserves to WIN world footballer of d YEAR.fifa fifa will always be fifa

Eto'o is a great player, no doubt. He has been consistent over the years, but the World footballer of the year is awarded on a yearly basis and not based on footballing career achievements. Eto'o might be doing well say in year 2009, an another player say Mr MJ suddenly comes up that year and does better and loses form in 2010, but Mr MJ will be given the award based on year 2009.

Think of Jay Okocha and the African footballer of the Year. Jay Jay was nominated for African Footballer of the Year for several years, but never won it. For the same reason that players like Mustapha Hadji, Amunike, Ikpeba, Mboma, Diouf emerged