After Black Maidens were disqualified from participating in the U-17 Women’s World Cup qualifiers due to age fraud, vice president Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia believes that the Ghana Card will put an end to age-cheating in football.
“Fake birth certificates were a big problem for our country, and it made it very difficult for people to trust our documents at embassies and everywhere because people will just go and have fake birth certificates,” Bawumia said.
“When we went to the birth and death registry, we found three different databases, and we had to harmonize the databases.
“Once you have a unique identity you’ll not have fake birth certificates as there will be no football age versus normal age. That business will come to an end.”
“Recently you would know that our women’s team was banned for presenting some overaged players. Hopefully, now we are going to strictly require that they bring their Ghana card before they are going to be registered to play,” he stated.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
