School Coaches, Managers should be sanctioned heavily in Digicel C/ships

Jul 13, 2012 Sports

DEAR SPORT EDITOR,
Over a two week period hardly a day went by without a school on the losing end, lodging a protest about its opponent fielding / playing an over age player, with the end result after an investigation a loss by default. How dishonest by some coaches and management!
Editor, when youngsters at such a tender age (Under-17) can be taught how to cheat, instead of the intricacies of the game.
May I, enquire where is the sport and its development heading? Isn’t it a burning shame that the Corporate sponsor Digicel’s image for its good deed is being rewarded with a host of negative attributes publicly?
More so, at school level, and most shockingly the most senior Secondary School in the country, Queens College! But what of the competition’s coordinator? Did the individual specify that with each registration form a photocopy of the player’s birth certificate is attached?
Which can be eventually verified with the school records, via the principal, at least (2) two weeks prior to kick-off?
Any other mechanism outside the ambits of the afore-mentioned is conducive to improper administrative capabilities, of which an immediate review is necessary. In 1990 Regional powerhouse of CONCACAF, Mexico, received a ban from FIFA, for fielding over-age players in a Youth World Cup.
Such was the severity of the ban that the country couldn’t have participated in any competition, under the auspicies of the sport’s governing body! Mexico was disqualified from the 1990 FIFA World Cup (and any other international competition).
The punishment originally was only going to be applied to the FIFA World Youth team and not the World Cup or Olympic Games team, but the penalty was applied to all Mexican national representative teams of all FIFA sanctioned tournaments.
Finally, the method utilized for verification of the player’s correct age wasn’t written documentation, but rather scientific, testing of the teeth/bone structure! While I doubt that in my lifetime our football would be so developed.
Sir, I, must remonstrate that of all places a school would have within its records more than one source of verifying the true and correct age of its students, i.e. birth certificate and immunization card, in comparison to a club.
And knowing some youngsters, even before a game starts they would say” Sir I know him he’s not an Under-17, we play in the same club”!
So my serious point of contention is that officials who promote and condone the malpractice of cheating should be debarred from further involvement in the sport for a significant period of time.
“Fair Play Always, for the Good of the Game and Love of the World”
Lester Sealey

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