Samuel Eto’o and his daughter Erika reach an agreement on their support

24-year-old Erika Do Rosario Nieves, declared legal in 2022. daughter of former Cameroonian footballer Samuel Eto’ohe reached an agreement with his father for the payment around 90,000 euros in the concept of unpaid maintenance pensions, which closes the legal process that was opened in 2018 before the court in Madrid.

As the young woman’s lawyer explained, the two parties reached a “satisfactory” agreement after negotiations that ended this week with the entry of the agreed money into the young woman’s current account, and after intensive negotiations by lawyers for both parties.

In 2018, Erika Do Rosario Nieves filed a lawsuit to recognize the paternity of a former soccer player who knew her mother, Adileusa. in a nightclub in Madrid in 1997when the player was a member of CD Leganés, after being introduced to them by a mutual friend.

Although the lawsuit was filed in 2018, child support, 1400 euros per monthit was approved in a visit held in 2020, which was now claimed, which was again stated in writing in a lawsuit filed a few days before in the court of first instance number 83 in Madrid.

The appeal considered the request of 12 months in prison for the ex-player, who already has a similar 22-month sentence for tax offenses in Italy and non-payment pensions to the second daughter in the same country.

The lawyer explained that the young woman’s mother told the player she was pregnant in February 1998, and he “told her that he would be responsible for their child together, although he preferred that she not have a child.”

She added that “during the pregnancy, she tried to communicate with the future father, but he did not answer her phone calls and e-mails” and he informed her by phone message that she was going to give birth, but she did not receive an answer.

The girl was born in 1999 at the Fundación Alarcón hospital in Madrid, when the footballer was a member of RCD Espanyol, and the player never recognized her.

In order to carry out the process, the young woman provided biological evidence to support her testimony, causing the judge to accept the claim, although Eto’o never complied with the court’s demands.

Fernando Osuna drew attention to the agreement reached between the parties in this matter, and asked “other parents” who are in the same situation “not to avoid their responsibility and try to reach an agreement with their children, because they cannot pay for the mistakes of the past, and today the judiciary is very aware of these problems and children always end up winning these cases”.