Uganda are the latest country to be kicked out of
the qualifying competition for the 2017 under-20 World Cup finals in South
Korea after being caught for age cheating, the Confederation of African
Football announced on Friday.
Uganda's expulsion
follows a similar punishment for neighbours Kenya last month.
The punishment was
handed out because it was discovered Uganda fielded a player who had supplied
two different dates of birth in the qualifying tie with Rwanda, which they won
3-2 on aggregate.
Goalkeeper James
Ahebwa had been registered to play for Ugandan club SC Villa in the African
Champions League two years ago, using a birth date of 1997.
Yet for the under-20
qualifiers, he produced a passport that stated he was born in 1998. Rwanda will
instead now play Egypt in the second round of the preliminaries next weekend.
Last month, Kenya
were thrown out for fielding five over-age players in their tie with Sudan. Age
cheating is notorious in African football but offending football associations
are rarely caught or punished.
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