Football Association of Malawi (Fam) hopes that the on-going National Identification (ID) exercise will help curb age-cheating among junior national team players.<\/p>\n
Fam Commercial Director, Limbani Matola, last week disclosed that the association spent about K10 million during the age-vetting exercise for Malawi under-17 national football team, which retained bronze at the Cosafa Youth Championship in Mauritius.<\/p>\n
In view of this, Fam wants to use the national IDs as part of the age-screening process.<\/p>\n
In the absence of the IDs, the association relied on word of mouth from parents, schools and religious institutions.<\/p>\n
Nine of 25 players for the junior team failed the test and were booted out of camp before the team departed for Mauritius.<\/p>\n
This means that Fam\u2019s money went down the drain as it was spent on ineligible players.<\/p>\n
Matola, therefore, said using the national IDs could be among the cheap ways of identifying eligible players.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is progress in terms of curbing age-cheating. The malpractice will, in some big way, be sorted out through the national IDs, once the project is successfully done.<\/p>\n
\u201cMRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) is expensive. For this squad alone, Fam has spent around K10 million just to vet the ages. Each scanned player cost K250, 000,\u201d Matola said.<\/p>\n
He added the National Youth Football Association has also embarked on a player tracking and data management exercise for all youth players.<\/p>\n
Article three of the Cosafa Under-17 Rules and Regulations only entertained players born on and after January 1, 2001.<\/p>\n
However, National Registration Bureau Public Relations Officer, Norman Fulatira, recently said there was no special mechanism to curb age-cheating among individuals during the registration.<\/p>\n
He said the specific date of birth to be recorded on one\u2019s ID will depend on the honesty of the owner and witnesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, in the absence of birth certificates, it is quite difficult. For the newly-born, that will be possible because they will be given birth certificates.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut for those who are old, we will be relying on what the one registering is saying and, of course, details seconded by his\/ her witnesses,\u201d Fulatira said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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