The Italian Football Association has confirmed that Lazio midfielder Joseph Minala is indeed 17 and not 42 as had been alleged.
In
February, an African football website claimed that Cameroon-born Minala
was pretending to be a teenager so he was eligible to play for Lazio’s
youth side and had altered his passport to take a full 25 years of his
actual birth date. That led to an official investigation which saw him
questioned by the league’s federal prosecutor.
However
a statement released by the Italian association on Wednesday confirmed
that Minala has been cleared and is now free to resume his career. “The
federal prosecutor has examined the report and ordered the investigation
to be closed,” the statement read. “There are no doubts about his age.
He is 17.”
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