{"id":3221,"date":"2016-05-13T19:25:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T17:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2016-05-13T19:25:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T17:25:52","slug":"uganda-kicked-20-world-cup-age-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/uganda-kicked-20-world-cup-age-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda kicked out of under-20 World Cup for age cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAIRO – 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.<\/p>\n

Uganda’s expulsion follows a similar punishment for neighbours Kenya last month.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

South Africa Today Sport \u2013 Sport News Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CAIRO – 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1201,1582,1585,1583,1267,371,1581,30,114,120,80,188,1580,1586,1584],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-african-football","tag-age-cheating","tag-caf-u-20","tag-confederation-of-african-football","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-footfall","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-uganda","tag-uganda-hippos","tag-under-20-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}