TonyTheTigerKiller wrote:
Who’s watching this game? If the Nigerian players are over aged, I wonder what you’d call the Portuguese and the Koreans
Cheers.
Stop trying to console yourself. The Portuguese will definitely be under 20 and I also suspect the Koreans too. In our case we know that the first option that we choose is to cheat the system. Even at the level of the Channels kids cup, schools try to cheat. Before MRI test are used you'll see players who clearly know that they were well over 17 years appearing for trials. I have even experienced it myself, a friend of mine years ago who i know was 25 years old at the time brought his age down to 17 with the hope of trying out in the U17s and getting a contract abroad. In the NPFL, many players have multiple dates of birth why is this so? I believe this would be easy to check but the NFF MUST take the lead on this. For the next U20s, players born from 01 Jan 2001 are eligible so you can't tell me that we cannot discover the real ages of players from the next set. Original birth certificates, primary and secondary school reports should be used. There are clear factors that can determine if someone's an age cheat, such as graduation from secondary school over 6 years ago, or playing in the NNL or NPFL for over 6 years should all be red flags. I believe if we are serious we can eliminate it from our national teams.