Former Cameroon national team goalkeeper Joseph-Antoine Bell is fast emerging as a top contender for Cameroon Football Association (Fecafoot)’s top job.

Although the next Fecafoot elections date has not been announced yet, already groundwork is being laid in readiness for the polls.

According to well-placed source, Bell has support of several current and past football officials who are in one way or another disgruntled by divisions that have threatened Fecafoot and Cameroonian football since 2015.

Cameroonian football has been under a normalisation committee that was appointed by World’s football governing body Fifa in 2017 and is expected to complete its mandate by conducting elections of a new federation executive committee by 28 February.

In a recent Jeune Afrique interview Bell said he is weighing should it be me, should it be now? though it seems the swamp is so toxic.

“It is always difficult to become a candidate when we are still talking about the date of election. I had been a candidate in 2015 and made sure that the election of Tombi Roko was cancelled because it was tainted with irregularities,” said Bell.

“If you ask me if I want to be a candidate, I will say Yes. It makes sense, as long as I had ideas three years ago.I still have the ideas now and I want to vie for top seat.”

One of Africa’s best ever goalkeepers did not succeed in 2015  after he failed to send in the correct documents when making his application.

Bell is expected to challenge Tombi Roko Sidiki who was thrown out of office following failed attempts by FIFA to reconcile the football stakeholders in Cameroon and overcome the impasse.