Senegal complain to Caf about Guinea's alleged age-cheating

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The U17 Afcon age-cheating storm rages on with Senegal becoming the latest to protest against the alleged falsifying of date of births

The Senegal Football Federation (FSF) have filed a complaint with Caf against Guinea for alleged age-cheating at the Africa Under-17 Cup of Nations (U17 Afcon) finals currently taking placeÂ in Tanzania.

Senegalâ€™s complaint comes after Morocco also threatened to drag Cameroon to FifaÂ for allegedly manipulating ages at the competition.

Senegal claimÂ they have evidence that two GuineaÂ players, Ahmed Tidiane Keita and Aboubacar Conte, forged their date of births to be eligible for the tournament.

Both the implicated players featured when the Guineans beat Senegal 2-1 in a Group B match on Thursday.

â€œThese players previously took part in the U16 International Dream Cup organised by the Japan Football Association from 14 to18 June 2017 in Japan and whose staging was authorised by Fifa with different birth dates indicated as follows: Ahmed Tidiane Keita born December 31, 2001 and Aboubacar Conte born November 13, 2001,â€ read a letter,Â as seenÂ by Record (and reported byÂ Dakar Actu).

The FSF claim that both players were in fact born in 2002.

â€œThese two players have reduced their ages by one year by obtainingÂ new passports different from those used during the Japan tournament in 2017,â€ read an extract from the letter.

The FSF also referred Caf to the Dream Cup official website where the alleged playersâ€™ date of births are published, different fromÂ their ages registered for the U17 Afcon.

Video footage of the concerned players while at the Dream Cup were also sent to Caf as evidence.

Already, Guinea have had one player stopped from participating at the ongoing tournament after he failed an MRI test.

The FSF also reinforced allegations of their opponents' history of age-manipulation by claiming that Guinea had six players barred from taking part atÂ the U17 Afcon qualifying tournament last year.

2019-04-21 10:00:04

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