Zambia Voluntary Soccer Fans Association (ZAFOSOFA) has commended the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) for introducing a device that will detect the actual age of the players in the country.
ZAVOSOFA Patron Pastor Peter Makembo told ZANIS sports in an interview today that the move will help bring sanity to the football fraternity
Makembo said the move is brilliant because players will no longer cheat on their actual age.
He said age cheating has always been a set back because even over aged players at times play in the under 23 team adding that the practice denies vibrant young players an opportunity to exploit their talent for the nation.
Last week World soccer governing body FIFA introduced an age detecting machine to help reduce age-cheating among players during youth tournaments.
The MRI bone machine is able to scan and determine the real age of a person.
The machines will be used during the forth coming FIFA Under-17 World Cup tournament set for Nigeria this month.
FAZ President Kalusha Bwalya welcomed the introduction of the machine, which will be run as a pilot project for future events.
Kalusha said age cheating had been a major problem, especially in Africa and the coming of the age scanner will help develop the game.
The FAZ president further said that FAZ is committed to using the right age of players for national teams like the Under-17,20 and 19.
Makembo urged the players to be truthful and give correct information to their clubs.
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you mean FAZ will start carbon dating football players? yangu tata!
number 2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Really? With all the probs in the country, this is news?
This is joke…please tell me this is no real imwe bantu. Ati ths “will help bring sanity to the football fraternity” hahahahahahahahaha I swear pa Zed awe shuwa mwe. Ba Kalusha na bena awe tata lesa wandi!
take a step back. mri technology uses radiation with potential harm to the person exposed. underlying philosophy of undertaking potentially harmful procedures is that the benefits should outweigh the risks. now start thinking about it.
#5 Jonam, i thought you carrying that US flag will give you an upper hand in seeing the real MRI scanner and now your ignorance is perplexing mwee! MRI works on the priniciple of magnetism, that is a high field magnet is used to cause the nucleus of an atom to change its direction relative to this external magnetic field. the nucleus of an atom behaves like a very small magnet whose polarity (north pole and south) can be taken advantage of in terms of capturing signals from either bone, soft tissue or body fluids. so this tech is far much safer than XRAY tech because in XRAY, definitely you can get terrible side effects, one of them being cancer of the skin or bone or you get disastrous mutations in your DNA such that your cells no longer make the right information hence the onset of can
cancers. If the XRAY’s target reproductive cells(germline cells) hmmmmmm, Jonam you can cry coz the outcome is almost always terrible.
Very fun elo lwanya nomba
The under17 is in Nigeria please
Sometimes you wonder what to do to please Zambians. Age detecting has been an issue which FIFA have considered looking into for a very long time now until they introduced it. All this is because Africans are cheating to get into under something tournaments and eventually into football academies in Europe.
When Kanu went to Holland, it is believed he was already about 25-26 but went as an under 20. Some reporter went to Nigeria to establish Kanu`s age but unfortunately there was no record of him being born in the area he was said to have come from. The Ghanian team that beat England the other day looked like they had 26 year olds there. West Africans are the worst culprits when it comes to cheating about age.
One wonders why we even register children when they are born because the…
Kalu should be tested first. Emmanuel zulu next…..
One wonders why we even register children when they are born because the councils keep no records. Typical African governments. Hence the reason FIFA have introduced these machines.
As for those talking about X-rays causing cancer please get back to your books again. The mobile phones you carry in your pockects especially people like Sir Alcapone obviously trying to show off that Black Berry/iPhone, are more harmful than a 30 second exposure.
Well done FAZ. People please read the article again!
This a FIFA project. All Football Associations in Africa were given these machines three weeks before the under 20 World cup kickoff in Egypt. It is therefore silly for anyone to thank FAZ.
Let this machine be hired to detect civil servants who are past their age. I know of a person whose young brother reached 55 years and retired but the ELDER brother is still below 55 years!! Imagine.
Stop the nonsense, such a machine was never their in the past. We are talking about now and moving forward. I don’t think Kalu’s generation cheated about their ages. It is only when U Age competitions started that is when cheating started expecially in West Africa, I don’t think Ghana and Nigeria will win anymore.
yayaya mbesuma,katongo,ba tana hahahaha yakosa
thats why african teams in the under 20 tornament this year have featured terribly,balinabo tight ,no age cheating