Man Utd confirm Old Trafford decision with club set to build £2bn 100,000-seater 'Wembley of the North'
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MANCHESTER UNITED and Manchester City have allegedly been caught up in an age fraud scandal over six academy stars.
The Telegraph reports there are fears that some of the foreign-born youngsters may actually have been adults.
RexMan Utd and Man City have been caught up in an age fraud scandal[/caption]
The outlet claims to have seen evidence, including photos, potentially implicating the six as having played in older age groups back in their homelands.
None of the players have been named.
Neither United or City are suggested to have known they were not the age they were said to be.
But both clubs are aware of the evidence that has emerged.
Three of the six players have gone on to play for England youth teams.
Parents of other children at United and City’s academy previously raised concerns with staff about the six players in question.
United and City, as well as the Premier League and Home Office, declined to comment on whether they have taken, or will take, any action.
But City insist they have not strayed from all the required and relevant legal and regulatory obligations.
They added that it’s not uncommon for star youth players to compete in older age groups.
A statement from Manchester United added: “We are committed to operating all aspects of our academy within the rules and regulations laid down by our governing bodies, including the recruitment and registration of players.
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“We take our responsibilities for player wellbeing and safeguarding very seriously.
“Indeed, we take pride in the reputation we have developed for considering the participants in our programmes as first and foremost children, rather than players.
“Our recruitment process is focused firmly on future potential rather than current performance or physical development.”
A crown over a soccer ball. An eyeball that “looked cool.” Flowers.
Those are some of the everyday tattoos that defense lawyers say helped lead to the sudden weekend deportation of roughly 200 Venezuelan men who are accused of being members of the ruthless gang Tren de Aragua.
President Donald Trump ordered the men removed from the U.S. and sent to a notorious El Salvadoran prison under an 18th century wartime law that allows noncitizens to be deported without due process.
The proclamation issued by Trump argued that the wartime law applied because the gang is “perpetrating an invasion” of the United States.
Most lawyers have dismissed that argument and noted that the government has not produced evidence to prove the men are gang members. The men were flown out of the country before they could meet with their attorneys.
Tattoos are signals of membership in some Latin American gangs, with the facial tattoos of the El Salvadoran group MS-13 perhaps the best known. Experts, though, say tattoos are not central to Tren de Aragua. They also note that tattoos, hugely popular all over the world, are often nothing more than body art.
U.S. officials have said agents did not rely on “tattoos alone” to identify gang members before the weekend flights. But lawyers and family members say tattoos were repeatedly used to argue that the men belonged to Tren de Aragua.
Take Jerce Reyes Barrios, 36, whose defense lawyer said in a sworn declaration that authorities identified him as a gang member in part because of a tattoo of a crown over a soccer ball and the word “Dios,” or God.
Reyes Barrios, though, had been a professional soccer player and he chose that tattoo because the crown looked like the logo of his favorite team, the Spanish soccer club Real Madrid, his lawyer, Linette Tobin said in the filing.
She included a photo of the tattoo in the filing.
The crown looks very similar to the Real Madrid logo.
