{"id":61932,"date":"2022-07-01T15:35:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T13:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/age-cheating-moses-chunga-calls-for-stiff-sanctions"},"modified":"2022-07-01T17:43:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T15:43:17","slug":"age-cheating-moses-chunga-calls-for-stiff-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/age-cheating-moses-chunga-calls-for-stiff-sanctions","title":{"rendered":"Age Cheating: Moses Chunga Calls For Stiff Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Zimbabwe football legend Moses Chunga says stiff sanctions should be imposed on football stakeholders involved in age-cheating.<\/p>\n

Bambo, as the nomadic coach is affectionately called, believes age-cheating has been allowed to go on for a long time in domestic football when the practice should have been eradicated a long time ago.<\/p>\n

Chunga is famous for his \u201cKidsnet\u201d project at Dynamos in the mid-2000s when his squad included a number of talented youngsters who illuminated the domestic football scene.<\/p>\n

The former Soccer Star of the Year runs the Moses Bambo Chunga Academy which he hopes to use as a model for grassroots football development.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an interview with The Herald on Thursday, the 54-year-old former Dynamos midfielder said age-cheating is holding back the development of junior football in the country. He said:<\/p>\n

Sometimes I feel like laughing when we talk about age-cheating in this era.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a pity because this thing has been going on since time immemorial.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s in human nature to cheat, the human species is good at that but since we are the ones doing it we are also capable of fixing it.<\/p>\n

Age-cheating has to stop if we want the best for our children. We make them accomplices in our acts of dishonesty.<\/p>\n

But I have an idea which I think can help. We can do it the easy way, let\u2019s say by normalising what looks abnormal.<\/p>\n

In the future tournaments to be hosted by the Moses Bambo Chunga Academy, each team will be allowed two over-aged players in every age group.<\/p>\n

Even at the Olympics where the national Under-23 teams play, it is allowed.<\/p>\n

If you continue to have an appetite to cheat under such an arrangement, then you need your head to be examined.<\/p>\n

Tougher sanctions should be given against people who use unsuspecting kids to promote that vice.<\/p>\n

Last week, Dynamos was kicked out of the inaugural Marvelous Nakamba tournament in Bulawayo after fielding a 22-year-old man at the Under-17 tournament.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe football legend Moses Chunga says stiff sanctions should be imposed on football stakeholders involved in age-cheating. Bambo, as the nomadic coach is affectionately called, believes age-cheating has been allowed to go on for a long time in domestic football when the practice should have been eradicated a long time ago. 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