Six more players cover up ages

Six more players cover up ages

JAKARTA (JP): Six more players were found falsifying their
ages so that they could join Bogasari U-15 league's second round,
while three others were undergoing further medical checks to
determine their original age, spokesman of the Soccer Association
of Indonesia (PSSI) Eddi Elison said on Wednesday.

All the youngsters have been banned from competing while a
team from Metro Surabaya Hospital carry out tests on the bones of
the three players in question.

"Four youngsters failed the checkup by the medical team from
Metro Surabaya Hospital. Their wisdom teeth have grown, so they
must be above 15-years old."

Eddi said that all the youngsters may face similar treatment
in the first round because the PSSI chapters that host the league
have only been able, so far, to perform administrative checks
rather than a thorough medical examination.

"It was the secretary-general of the PSSI who decided the
sanction."

The second round of the league will be held in Jakarta and in
Gresik, East Java. (ivy)