The Cameroon Football Association is taking tough action against its own players. They apparently tried to forge her identity.
The Cameroon Football Association has suspended 62 national players, media reported, citing a list published by the Cameroon Association (FECAFOOT) at the weekend. The reason: The players are said to have provided false information about their age. The supposedly 17-year-old national player Wilfried Nathan Douala is also said to be on the list.
Douala was the youngest player in the team that took part in the African Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast in January, but was eliminated in the round of 16 by Nigeria. Douala, who plays for first division club Victoria United in Cameroon, is said to have lied about his age. How old he actually is is not yet known.
Stay in the focus of talent scouts
In addition to Douala, the association also banned 61 other players. How long the bans will apply has not yet been publicly announced. Age fraud is rampant in African football. It is the third year in a row that the Cameroon federation has banned players for this reason. In 2022, 44 footballers were suspended and in 2023 21 footballers were suspended for providing false information about their age.
The former world-class footballer and current Cameroonian association president Samuel Eto’o is tackling the structural problem and taking action against his own players. As a rule, players pretend to be younger than they actually are in order to become the focus of European talent scouts. She is particularly interested in young footballers; Anyone over the age of 13 usually has no chance of getting promoted to a European league.
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2024-03-12 15:55:19
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