Siasia drops 10 players over age discrepancies

Nigeria Under-23 head coach, Samson Siasia, has sent 10 players home over discrep­ancies in their ages.
The second phase of the screening ex­ercise, involving players drawn from the clubs in the Nigerian Premier League, is currently ongoing in Abuja.
SL10.ng gathered that the play­ers were decamped on Friday after the League Management Company (LMC) sent the ages on their league licenses to the team’s handlers.
The ages claimed by the players, according to a reliable source, didn’t correspond with the ones on their li­censes, hence, the decision to send them packing from the camp.
However, the dropped players ar­gued that their ages were wrongly computed by their various team sec­retaries, a situation said to be com­mon with Nigerian clubs.
“I pity the players as most of them look quite young; we have a system where club secretaries in the past ruin league players’ national team careers by computing wrong ages on their licenses,” he said.
“We advised them to go back to sort the issue and we also pleaded with the LMC to correct the cases of those that have strong cases, but overall, our league clubs need to know what they are doing.”