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Calapez · Forum Addict Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 536

Has you may know, in Portuguese Youth levels there's a lot of African players (from the former colonies).. and have been a lot of problems here with their age, because in those countries, the kids are not usually registered when they born like in Europe, but some of them when they already have 2 or 3 years old..

Last week for example there was a little concern in a under-13 level match.. just take a look to the picture, does he seems to have 13 years old?? How can the "normal" kids play against that kind of players?

another pic during the age ckeck (which is, look to the identity card), just look to his face of fear)..

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Nathan · Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:43 pm Post subject:

Thats crazy. If a player can not provide sufficent age details then they shouldnt play youth football. That would stop problems such as this. The pictures of the guy you have shown Marco cannot surely be 13 or younger.
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mcruic · Site Admin Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 1381

I think either he was breast-feeding until 12, or he swallowed his younger brother.

jonny · Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:58 am Post subject:

Gambia have won the African Under-17 Championship.

The Baby Scorpions beat hosts Algeria 3-1 in the final on Thursday.

Gambia took the lead with a diving header early in the first half.

At half-time the Gambia had doubled their tally, but Algeria had claimed a goal back through a penalty to make it 2-1.

In the second half Gambia extended their lead and claimed the title 3-1.

Ebrima Bojang scored twice for Gambia and their other goal came from Alasana Camara.

It is the second time they have won the tournament, after they triumphed at home in 2005 the team then went on to the Under-17 World Cup and beat Brazil.

Gambia and Algeria, plus beaten semi-finalists Burkina Faso and Malawi, have all qualified for this year's global event, to be hosted in Nigeria.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/7980039.stm

Bonnet · Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:30 am Post subject:

Yesterday the U17- World Cup has started. I watched Nigeria - Germany.
The commentator speaked about biological age-tests.
There is a method to x-ray the wrist and to see on the basis of the growth of bones how old a human being is.
FIFA executed this the first time before the tournament.
This test exposed that 15 (!!!) of 21 players of the original nigerian squad were over 17 years old...
Shocked

Now the previous successes in the past tournaments of Nigeria (or other african teams) are really doubtful.

mcruic · Site Admin Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 1381

Fortune Chukwudi, who is playing for Nigeria at the U-17 World Cup, is apparently at least 25 years old.

http://goal.com/en/news/89/africa/2009/11/05/1606304/nigeria-u-17-captain-fortune-chukwudi-is-25-former-nigeria

I am sure there are others who have somehow been allowed to play. FIFA should investigate this fully, and if Nigeria are found guilty, they should be banned from all age level competitions. Anything less than this punishment would be useless.

nfm24 · Forum Addict Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 665

It would be consistent with e.g. the punishment of Mexico in 1988 - kicked out of the Olympics 1988 and the World Cup 1990.