Over 50 Teams To Participate In MTN Lagos Street Soccer Championship U- 15 Category.

Over fifty football players have been disqualified for age falsification just as two schools and football academies have also been qualified from the newly introduced Under 15 junior category in the season six, MTN Lagos Street Soccer Championship.

Executive Secretary of the MTN Lagos Street Soccer Championship, Deji Aladegbemi, said the move was in line with the commitment of the Local Organising Committee, to eliminate age falsification.

Aladegbemi, said the committee wanted to state categorically that the new initiative is meant to unearth talents premised on player respective true age and it is not a do-or-die affair.

He said the committee would sanction any team caught engaging in age-cheat, stressing that it is an enormous task, but they are committed to use the Under 15 category to signpost the beginning of new ear in age group football competition in Nigeria.

Meanwhile, the LOC has set Monday August 12 for referees and match commissioners seminars, while the draws for the tournament will hold on Wednesday August 14 at Teslim Balogun Stadium.

The championship will kick off across the state on Sunday, eighteenth of August