So true, so false: Golden Eaglets goalkeeper, Dele Alampasu may be aged 21, not 17

A scandal is threatening to shatter the reputation of the nation’s winning U-17 national team.  There are reports that the winning team is composed of some over-aged players whose ages were deliberately understated.


According to reports, investigations were carried out on the goal keeper of the reigning champions, Golden Eaglets in the U-17 World Cup, Dele Alampasu.

It was gathered that, Dele Alampasu was already 20 years old when the U-17 championship was being played in the  United Arab Emirate (UAE) in 2013.
Reports say:

The Sun newspaper of 19th January 2014 on its page 16 has a story titled: “Golden Eaglets goalkeeper, Dele Alampasu’s father, bids farewell to poverty; Me, Okada rider? Never again! He says.” The report authored by the authoritative Omololu Kassim written is suave silky skilful prose makes sweet reading.
Tomi, Alampasu’s father according to the report, “is fondly called Baba Dele in Itoki district, Ogun state, had lived a wretched life ever since he arrived there in 1993, the same year that Dele Alampasu was born. The jubilant father told this reporter that Dele was christened ‘Dokunanyan’ a name in Egun dialect which means tomorrow will be better for me.’

With this revelation, the truth has finally sneaked out of the bag. Our investigations revealed that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) officials were the ones who helped the player to doctor their ages.

Alampasu is not the only player whose age was doctored. We have concluded assertive investigations on five members of that team whose ages were all reduced to make them eligible to play in the championship. These we shall reveal to our reading public. Evidences including official government documents are available to substantiate our findings.

In this instance, Dele Alampasu who is well known in the Itoki area where he grew in the hands of neighbours who know him could not have mixed the facts about him. Or would Alampasu’s father not have remembered or know when his son was born.

The story which was done in its reality of strings of events in a natural environment carried the truth which the father gave innocently without being schooled about his son’s new age. This confirmed the cheating. The fact that several players in that team have doctored their ages makes it a deliberate official policy.
Naturally, Dele Alampasu is 21 years of age but by his FIFA records he is 17!

If it is true that the small breeze from the butterfly wings develops and grow to become a tornado then after these exposures, we shall proceed to FIFA with a formal demand for inquisition and possible withdrawal of the fraudulent trophy that the Nigeria Football Federation used these adults to win as kids and let the real kids earn their trophy.