Ghana’s 1991 World Cup squad were overage - Fabin

Head Coach of the Ghana Under-17 male football team, Paa Kwesi Fabin believes the Black Starlets used overage players to win the 1991 U17 World Cup in Japan. The Starlets were banned from competing at the 2015 Africa U-17 Championship after using two over age players in a qualifier against Cameroon in 2014. Ghana has failed to win the World Cup in the last 21 years, leading to claims by some pundits that this is because it has become difficult to present overage players to the age competitions due to the introduction of the MRI scan. Coach Fabin insists it would be wrong to compare the current generation of Starlets players to the older generation, which were more successful, because they were full of age cheats. “Sometimes people make comparisons, but in 1991 we won this Cup and so on but those days are quite different because those days anybody is paraded as an Under-17 player and they go and play and win,” Coach Fabin told Starr Sports. “Well, I wouldn’t say we cheated but it’s obvious that some of them were well over 17. Because, the other time I think I heard Yaw Preko on air saying that they were asked to change their ages and things like that. I heard him on air, not me,” he added. Meanwhile, the Black Starlets has selected 40 players for the Phase Two of the selection process which is currently underway at Prampram.

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