AC Milan Forward Summoned to court Over Age Alteration

A former AC Milan forward Yusupha Yaffa has been summoned to court in Italy after allegedly altering his age and telling the Serie A club that he was 16 year old when he was signed in 2013, whereas he was 25.
 
 
The Gambian international who now plies his trade for German outfit, MSV Duisburg Duisburg having left Eintracht Frankfurt on loan, joined Milan’s youth set-up three years ago before going on to become a regular in their Under-19 side.
The UK Independent citing Gazzetta dello Sport, reports that Italian authorities revealed that after Yaffa lost his identity papers during his asylum registration in 2009, he stated that his birthday was December 31, 1996, when his real birth date is said to be the February 14, 1987.
 
However, Yaffa has denied the charge, but former head coach Filippo Inzaghi and club executives Adriano Galliani and Barbara Berlusconi could all be required to attend the trial to give evidence.
It was gathered that Yaffa was investigated after he had commented on his Facebook in which he spoke of his previous schooling and not his current one, given he was alleged to be 16 years old at the time.
Yaffa is however not new to court cases after he was arrested in January 2015 for rape after an incident at a team-mate house.
But his club at that time, Eintracht Frankfurt, posted the €100,000 bail meaning that Yaffa only spent one night in custody.
However, should the allegations of him giving false information surrounding his age prove true, he could then be tried in a regular court as opposed to a juvenile one and could face a charge of fraud back in Italy.