Cameroon soccer’s age fraud grows as ‘eleven extra Underneath-17 gamers fail assessments’

Cameroon Soccer has uncovered one other age fraud as 11 additional Underneath-17 gamers have failed age assessments, bringing the full quantity as much as 32.

The African nation’s Underneath-17 staff are making ready for the UNIFACC match – contested by the Underneath-17 sides of Central African Soccer Federations’ Union international locations.

Samuel Eto’o – who’s president of the nation’s governing physique, Fecafoot known as for all gamers chosen for his or her youth facet to endure MRI assessments to find out gamers’ age in an try to cope with the rising downside of age fraud within the nation.

21 members of their Underneath-17 squad had been disqualified earlier this week after failing the assessments in a setback to Eto’o’s makes an attempt to eradicate the issue within the Central African nation.

After the unique 21 members of the squad had been eliminated, 11 new gamers that had been known as up as replacements have additionally failed assessments, in accordance with BBC Sport Africa.

The assessments are used to find out a participant’s age by scanning their wrists and measuring bone progress. 

In an announcement, Fecafoot stated Eto’o had given ‘strict directions’ for the assessments to happen ‘with a purpose to put an finish to the tampering with civil standing information which have, prior to now, tarnished the picture of Cameroon soccer.’

They added: ‘Fecafoot urges all actors, specifically educators, to make sure that the ages by class are revered.’