"He's got a special African feeling about the way he plays. It's difficult to explain, but you can see he's got a lot of experience of African football."
Camara's second goal crushed Sweden and set Dakar off on a day of riotous celebration.
The focal point of the festivities was again the presidential palace, with thousands of fans pushing themselves up against the railings.
President Abdoulaye Wade came out to greet the crowds, just as he had done against France two weeks ago.
The streets of Dakar were taken over by green, red and yellow convoys.
Motorbikes, cars and ordinary bicycles were covered in flags, banners and ribbons bearing the national colours.
Once again, state television abandoned its normal programming and simply ran interviews with supporters and endless footage of the crowds converging on the city centre.
As the initial excitement waned, the tooting of car horns gave way to the familiar sounds of children's football matches.
Asked for post-match analyses, fans who had already screamed themselves hoarse kept shouting Camara's name, adding time and again "the World Cup is coming to Senegal".
"I'm normally a Fadiga fan," said 17-year-old drama student Rosalie Ndiaye. "But today Henri Camara showed us what he was made of."
Fellow supporter Ousmane Sarr agrees.
"He is somebody special, somebody who maybe needs a bit of reassurance. But we have every confidence in him. He is someone who can go on to be even better. He really showed that against Sweden".