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Andre Onana believes his home town Yaoundé, Cameroon is the most beautiful city in the World.

Onana might have retired from international football, but he still speaks highly of his nation Cameroon and never fails to admit the love he has for his country at each chance he gets. He even wears goalkeeper gloves for Inter Milan with Cameroon’s flag on it.

Speaking in the official Matchday Programme ahead of their evening’s Milan derby clash with AC Milan which they went on to win 1-0, the 26-year-old talked about what playing for Inter means to him personally.

The Cameroonian looked back that “When I was a child, near my house there was a small pitch called the ‘Giuseppe Meazza’, I don’t know why, it must have been destiny!”

“It was for me the loveliest little pitch in the world, the perfect place to learn to play.”

“We had fun, but we were just out there playing, that was the most important thing to us,” he recalled.

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Of his goalkeeping idols, Onana named “Iker Casillas, Victor Valdes, and Julio Cesar, for me he was a great goalkeeper.”

“He was explosive, very good with his feet, and between the posts he was among the best in the world,” he noted of the Treble-winning Brazilian.

Of former players he’d like to have trained with, Onana replied “Materazzi, based on his character and personality, he’s a guy with a heart of gold.”

 

“The player I’d like to come up against is Diego Milito, he was excellent in one-on-one situations and his finishing was cold-blooded,” the keeper added.

“Yaoundé is for me the most beautiful city in the world, different from all the others. When I get the chance to go back I’m always happy, it’s nice to go back and still feel at home. My dream started there. As a child I never imagined playing for a big club like Inter. I played football, had fun and hoped for a better future. I love Milan, I’ve been to the Duomo and toured a bit. Italy in general has a lot of history and that fascinates me very much”. He added