The decision by the coach Fatai Amoo led crew of the Nigeria U17 team to drop three players who have been impressive in the screening exercise of the team has sparked outrage.
As part of their preparations for the WAFU B championship, the team have been in Abuja with the coaches picking players from a pool of players who have turned up for selection.
Three players who were very impressive in four different training session were however the talk of almost everyone who was there when they were dropped by the coaches.
While players who appear to be heavily developed are quickly made to undergo the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Test (MRI) to ascertain if they are within the age bracket. The trio were dropped over their facial appearance.
“ They were asked to go home after training on Friday with the coaches using their facial appearance to drop them. None of them have beards and two are still in secondary school. The other one is even writing WAEC now”, the coach of the trio told Owngoalnigeria.com.
“ It’s shocking that they weren’t even asked to go for MRI scan like the rest but just told to go home. That’s not fair to the players considering how well they performed in training”.
