Only last year the Golden Eaglets, as they are known, won the FIFA U17 World Cup in Chile for a record fifth time. In 2013 Nigeria were left without key players for their Fifa Under-17 World Cup in after failing the same tests. Sports World News of Sunday, 7 August 2016Source: BBCNigeria's under-17 squad wiped out as half are older than 17A staggering 26 members of Nigeria's Under-17 side failed an age test carried out ahead of an African Cup of Nations qualifier. Football's world governing body Fifa introduced MRI scans to check the ages of players at the 2009 Under-17 World Cup, which took place in Nigeria. A mandatory Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) screening of the squad revealed almost half were ineligible to play.

Source: CameroonWeb August 07, 2016 10:48 UTC