Yaounde (Cameroon): Cameroon football chiefs said they are determined to root out the seven players they termed as 'bad apples' implicated in an alleged matchfixing scandal over their World Cup group game with Croatia.

"Recent allegations of fraud around Cameroon's 2014 Fifa World Cup three preliminary games, especially Cameroon versus Croatia, as well of the 'existence of seven bad apples [in our national team]' do not reflect the values and principles promoted by our administration, in line with Fifa's code of conduct and the ethics of our nation," the Cameroon federation (FECAFOOT) said in a statement on its website. "We are strongly committed to employ all means necessary to resolve this disruptive matter in the shortest delays." FECAFOOT added that in 55 years they had never before been punished for "match-fixing or any fraud of any kind."