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| Kenya used five overage players in qualifying for the Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations |
Kenya have been thrown
out of the under-20 World Cup qualifying competition for the 2017 finals in
South Korea for fielding five over age players, the Confederation of African
Football (CAF) said on Wednesday.
Press
Association report continues:
The
east African country has been disqualified for using the ineligible players in
the first leg of a qualifier for next year's Africa Cup of Nations, which also
serves as the World Cup qualifying tournament, against Sudan on April 3 which
ended 1-1.
Kenya
were due to host the return leg this weekend but CAF has instead awarded Sudan
a place in the next round of the competition for places at the 2017 finals in
Zambia.
African
soccer's governing body said Kenya's Theodore Kibet, Nicholas Kipkirui, Eugene
Moses, Boniface Muchiri and Erick Ouma were all born before the cutoff date of
Jan. 1, 1997.
"Football
Kenya Federation clearly violated the competition regulations and is
consequently disqualified and the U-20 Sudan team is qualified to the next
round," CAF general secretary Hicham El Amrani said in a letter sent to
the Kenyans.
Age cheating is notorious in African football but offending football associations are rarely caught or punished.
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