France, April 9 -- Cameroonian football's internecine infighting exploded into the open on Tuesday following theappointment of Marc Brys as head coach of the national football squad.

The 61-year-old Belgian was unveiled on Monday by Cameroon's sports minister Narcisse Mouelle Kombi as a replacement for Rigobert Song who took the team - nicknamed the Indomitable Lions - to the last-16 at the Africa Cup of Nations in February in Cote d'Ivoire.

However, the president of the country's football federation Fecafoot and other top executives were absent from the ceremony in Yaounde.

Fecafoot chief Samuel Eto'o claims Brys was appointed without consulting the governing body.

"The national federation cannot recognise these appointments made out...