The Cameroonian FA has suspended 62 gamers for concealing their true age.
The gamers have been dominated ineligible to compete within the upcoming play-off’s for the MTN Elite One – Cameroon’s prime division – based on native media. Clubs which have gamers banned now have 72 hours to enchantment the choice.
One such participant who has been banned is Wilfried Nathan Doualla, who brought on a stir at AFCON earlier this yr when followers found he’s 17 years outdated. Football followers have been shocked, with Doualla’s appears showing method past his tender years.
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Fans in England had in contrast Doualla to Luke Littler, the teenager darts famous person who appears like he is in his mid-30s. Douala, who’s now suspended from taking part in for Victoria United, was the youngest member of Rigobert Song’s 27-man squad at AFCON.
Cameroon was rocked by an age scandal on the flip of the yr, as 32 gamers known as as much as an under-17s event failed “age tests” – suggesting they’re older than they declare to be.
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Speaking forward of AFCON, Bambe Wanneh Giovanni, a Cameroonian soccer journalist, admitted to The Athletic age fraud is an issue in his residence nation: “We’ve had so many cases of age fraud.
“A participant will get scouted when they’re 17 or 18 — the ages golf equipment actually need to get skills to construct them up. When they get previous that degree of 17 or 18, they wouldn’t get an opportunity to play in Europe.”