Age cheat: Nigerian striker, 23, claimed to be well over 40

Azerbaijan media claim 23-year-old Nigerian striker Victor Emenayo is well over 40

The media claim Emenayo is older in appearance than his coach Adil Mahmudov

The Nigerian and his club are yet to respond to the allegations

 A Nigerian striker, Victor Emenayo, who was recently signed on to the Azerbaijani top division side Shahdagh Qusar FK has been accused of age falsification by the country media.

The media in Azerbaijan claims Emenayo is 17 times older than the age (23) that is on his international passport, Vanguard reports.

According to his international passport the forward who has already made his debut for his new side was born in 1993.

However, online reports about the striker who has played in Uganda for the best part of his career  shows Emenayo should be 28 years old judging by his official age before his move to Shahdagh Qusar.

Due to this, the Nigerian striker has become the subject of ridicule by social media users in Azerbaijan with the media stating that he indeed looks well above 40 years old.

They claim the fact that he shaved five years off the official age he has been using, means he has more than one international passport in his possession and his looks suggest he is well above 40.

Emenayo in action for his former side SC Villa of Uganda

It was also gathered that the former SC Villa of Uganda striker is reportedly older in appearance than the coach of the team Adil Mahmudov according to the media in Azerbaijan.

However, the Nigerian or his club are yet to respond to the allegations.

Suspicions about the true age of some Nigerian footballers dated as far back as 20 years when world football governing body FIFA banned Nigeria from all international fixtures for two years, after finding that the birth dates of three of their players in the 1988 Olympics were different from the ones used by the same players in previous tournaments.

Despite believes that age fraud in the country was set to be a thing of the past with this punishment from FIFA, it became more prominent. This stirred a move again from FIFA to introduce the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans aimed at checking the ages of players at the 2009 Under-17 World Cup.