It was a surprise to hear New York Red Bulls center-back Hassan Ndam had joined the Cameroon U-23 squad for its November series against Chad in Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualifying. It will be a bigger surprise to hear Ndam plays at all in the first leg of that series today, since he doesn’t appear to have been with the team for very long.
Still, he’s trained with the squad, his fitness shouldn’t be an issue, and if he was summoned at short notice then it was presumably with the idea that he could be of immediate help to his team’s cause.