Kuffour insists: I played with my right age

Former national team star Sammy Kuffour is adamant over purported claims by his former international teammate Yaw Preko that all Ghanaian players have age-cheated in the past.

Reacting to the news that over ten players of the current U-17 national team had been sent home for failing the MRI scan which checks ages, Preko was quoted to have said it was an open secret in the nation’s football. But in a counter response to the subject matter on Supersport’s Soccer Africa program, Kuffour who is now an in-house pundit on Supersport, denied ever cheating age-wise.


The former Bayern Munich defender who played for all of Ghana’s male national teams at every level, making his debut at Scotland ’89 as a mere 13 year old and who was Preko’s teammate as Ghana won the U-17 World Cup in 1991, said: “I met Yaw Preko in the national team. He was my senior, he was there before I went.

"We come from different backgrounds, different environments. Maybe they did it for him where he came from but me they didn’t do it for me. I played with my real age.”