Personality of The Week Kyria Inès Michaely Bihina: Lionesses goalkeeper.

This season, it is the WAFCON tournament that is the measuring rod of just how good countries are in terms of female football.

The derivatives from the continental showpiece comes in manifolds; glory for talents, nations and inspiring the next generation of superstars.

The Guardian Post has upheld traditions and practices that seek to influence society towards aiming for the best at all times, irrespective of circumstances. 

This explains why in the last couple of years, the Personality of The Week column on The Guardian Post, which has also singled itself for 25 years and still counting in journalistic excellence across the Economic Community of Central African States, ECCAS, has remained the exclusive preserve of millions of readers.

Depending on the highs of every week, our readers have consistently enjoyed the will power to vet for global honour and reference persons who scale the highest heights. 

The fitting measures to the extensive global audience of The Guardian Post that is in every nation of the world.

As at sundown Wednesday, August 12, 2026, thousands of The Guardian Post readers had made several proposals, with the Indomitable Lionesses goalkeeper, Kyria Inès Michaely Bihina, among but the chances she was going to outpace others were not even signaling enough.

But the tides turned as she literarily shielded Cameroon through an intense 120 minutes WAFCON seminal game against host nation, Morocco, to hand Cameroon an affirmative ticket in the final. 

The heroics of Wednesday night added to similar acrobatic saves and never-seen steadiness in between the sticks that sent the tournament’s most decorated side, the Super Falcons of Nigeria, missing out on a direct female World Cup qualification ticket and quitting the tournament.

Yet, our readers are stating that the performance of Goalkeeper Kyria Inès Michaely Bihina, in the match against Morocco, completely shattered the glass ceiling and opened a new wave of honour for her. 

Readers of The Guardian Post say Bihina, through her exceptional goalkeeping, has brought untold joy and honour, not just to herself but the nation as a whole.

Given the years of droughts and doubts in football pleasure Cameroon has been known for in the last couple of years, the wonder kid, Bihina, 22, has risen to the pinnacle of matchless global admiration. 

But that’s not all; her talents have also laced the nation with a rainbow of admiration that keeps it glittering.

On the strength of her one-woman show of ingenuity, courage, unimaginable level of concentration, Kyria Inès Michaely Bihina, our readers are overwhelmingly saying, is the wonder kid of the tournament and is the undisputed Personality of The Week.

Bihina, readers of The Guardian Post are saying, has honoured Cameroon and brightened its footballing image, which, though glorious, lacked fresh glory in recent times. 

The choice makes Bihina the 20th Personality of The Week for 2026 so far. She also comes to the apex of honour and celebration with yet another record as the youngest ever Personality of The Week our readers have ever chosen. 

Amid her youthfulness, those who endorsed her as the most decisive and impressive Cameroonian of this week, say Bihina is shining on the basis of merit, her virgin talent and rallying power to carry an entire team and nation, through the pressures of the moment, especially on the pitch.

Many are those who have qualified her as the brightest of light rays, most energetic of arrow heads and most piercing of Cameroonian human resource the nation has seen in the first eight months of the year grinding out.

While some admirers see her as a rare gem and revelation of the ongoing WAFCON, experts and stakeholders alike, see through her the manifestation of what Cameroonian youths are made of. 

Bihina has become the message of the season and the future. There are those who see her as a character with golden qualities and abilities. Bihina possesses uncommon humility often rare among athletes in this feel-good generation. 

Her admittance to the power of group work, albeit her explicit personal qualities that wowed millions across the world Wednesday, many are saying and rightly so that, this is not just her season but Cameroon’s too.

Our readers say Cameroon can’t be embellished in the pride of a successful WAFCON campaign with Bihina’s fingerprints and gloves written all over it and she is denied pried of first mention.  This week, she is the face of Cameroon with impeccable fitting across global settings.

Though young, your Personality of The Week is already the lead in the galaxy of shooting stars. Bihina is a rare talent, with undisputed capacity and weight, fit for any global competition. While the wait for such future higher exploits is already signaling, our readers say she means more than the world to her generation and Cameroon.

Unlike some who use their talents for self-glorification, Bihina is spinning in unending applause and honour, for using hers to honour nation. 

There are some who have stopped at pegging her as a national heroine, while others are insistent and rightly so, that the finesse, gracefulness, seamless and rareness of her quality make her not just a continental sensation but a world heroine.

She is made of sterner stuff. Bihina is the never give-up type. Her trajectory reminiscences the need to always keep fighting on, even amid slips.

Those glorying in her miracle WAFCON performances today, say they find it hard to comprehend that it is the same goalkeeper who suffered slips during qualification for the same tournament.

Today, Bihina has matured her talent, thickened her courage and lightened her virtuosities that are putting smiles on the faces of millions of Cameroonians across the world.

For every honour due her person, millions of readers of The Guardian Post say and exceptionally so, that featuring her in the hall of fame of Personality of The Week, outweighs even when an entire nation lines the streets to salute her zest and prowess in goalkeeping. 

Born on December 28, 2003, Bihina went through thick and thin to follow her dream of playing football. Her father is said to have not only prioritised education, but barred her from the beautiful game.

Even with the disappointment of having lost her father along the line, Bihina answered to the call of her instincts. She nurtured and matured her talents through local clubs across Cameroon.

With stints guidance from global talents like Andre Onana, Bihina found herself maturing faster in goalkeeping than she could ever imagined.

She was given the basics of the dos and the don’ts of what it takes to be the skies where hard work and fate have actually put her today. 

The Bihina who fumbled with football among boys, from her tender age, is today Cameroon’s main banner and pride at WAFCON.

Bihina made her debut in elite football, with Canon of Yaounde. At the age of 15, she won a silver medal at the 2019 African Games in Rabat, Morocco.

On October 9, 2019, Bihina officially left Canon and signed for two seasons with Éclair FC of Sa'a. The move further opened up her professional horizon.

She at some point served as a striker at the said club, also distinguishing herself in the process. Bihina then became a regular in Cameroon’s under 17 and Under 20 national teams. She later made her debut with the senior national team.

At the end of her contract with Éclair FC, Bihina disappeared for a while before reappearing in August 2022, in Portugal, where she signed with Racing Power, then a second-division team. 

She shun at the club. In May 2023, at the end of her second season with the club, she helped Racing Power win the Portuguese Second Division league and helped the team qualify for the country’s First Division.

A year later, Bihina was named the best goalkeeper in the Portuguese First Division League, while Racing Power finished the 2023-2024 season in an impressive third place. 

She later earned classification among the best goalkeepers and not long afterwards, SL Benfica, the leader in Portuguese women's football and a participant in the UEFA Women's Champions League, came for her quality.

Her transfer was officially announced on February 1, 2026. Bihina has won the league and the Portuguese Cup with Benfica.

Bihina, many they have declared, is a fundamental pillar in the building of a formidable football team that will further upraise Cameroonian female talents. 

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3878 of Friday August 14, 2026