Kaizer Chiefs Collins Mbesuma

Collins looks for the pass from John Shoes Mosheou. Image: KickOff/ Twitter.

Kaizer Chief legend admits to age cheating to go pro!

One of the best players to every play for Kaizer Chiefs, an Amakhosi legend, admitted to age cheating ! Ironically, he was one of the best players in PSL history…

Kaizer Chiefs Collins Mbesuma

Collins looks for the pass from John Shoes Mosheou. Image: KickOff/ Twitter.

One of the best players to every play for Kaizer Chiefs, an Amakhosi legend, admitted to age cheating ! Ironically, he was one of the best players in PSL history…

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Amakhosi legend and PSL great Collins Mbesuma lied about his age, according to DailyWorthing.

He claimed he was one year older than he actually and even recently publicly admitted to this.

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CHIEFS LEGEND LIED ABOUT HIS AGE TO GO PRO

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Mbesuma had to age cheat in order to kickstart his professional career.

However, it is not the traditional age cheating we have seen in recent years…

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RUSTENBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: 23 April 2005, Collins Mbesuma during the CAF Champions League match between Kaizer Chiefs and Esperance at Olympia Park Stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa. Photo by Gallo Images

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Usually, if a player age cheats, they claim to be younger than they are in in order to gain an advantage over a younger age group. For example, stating you are 19 when you are 25 in order to play in the under 20 World Cup.

However, Mbesuma claimed he was younger than he actually was in order to go pro at 15.

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 “I had to add one more year to my age so that I could acquire an identity document while I was at Roan United [in Zambia], aged 15,” Mbesuma stated in the same publication.

“I went to the ID offices and I was told that to get that ID I had to be 16. So my mother and father decided to add one more year on my age so that I could immediately fulfill my dream,” he added.

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Therefore, Mbesuma lied about his age, claiming he was a year older in order to go pro.

“There was no other way because I wanted to play and the coaches wanted to use me. So when I started playing in the Zambian Premier League for Roan United I was actually 15 instead of 16 that appeared on my documents,“ he added.

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