Wilfried Nathan Douala made the information when he was picked for the Cameroon nationwide aspect for 2 causes: the primary being that he was the youngest participant at this 12 months’s AFCON at 17 years outdated, and the second being that there have been doubts that the primary motive was true.
There have been fast query marks over the age of the participant from the second his identify was introduced. Camerounfoot described him as “Essentially the most mature 17-year-old on this planet,” whereas Le Monde suspected that the Douala was a 23-year-old that they had beforehand interviewed years earlier than who on the time glided by the identify Alexandre Bardelli.
Footballer from Cameroon’s nationwide group suspended for ‘false id’.
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The 2 gamers bore a hanging similarity having the identical tattoos in the identical spots, in addition to the identical scar, whereas even the quantity that Bardelli had left the interviewer to maintain in touch occurred to now be that of Douala’s mom.
Douala was suspended from the tenth of March for an accusation of false id, and it appeared as if the story can be over for a footballer who had begun to impress within the Cameroon league together with his membership Victoria United FC.
Nevertheless, a brand new twist has marked the story, because the Cameroonian Soccer Federation has cleared Douala of the accusation and allowed him to play within the upcoming MTN Elite 2024 playoffs for Victoria. Even confirming his date of beginning as being the fifteenth of June 2006. A reality that might make the participant 17 years outdated.
GFFN | Nick Hartland