HOW LONG IS Traore?
(left Mouhamadou Traore - Lubin Basin footballer - born April 16, 1986 year, the right Mouhamadou Traore was born April 16, 1982 year, which in 2004 was tested by Wisla Krakow. Both the city of Thies, both performed ASC Jaraaf in the club, although Traore - footballer Basin - today pretends that he never played there. The case of whether the same character and simply a scam?)
investigation took me two weeks. Several hundred minutes of calls to Senegal, sent dozens of emails, sent a dozen pictures, time spent reviewing messages Senegalese press agency APS ... At some point, the investigation has become so difficult for me, that after returning home from the editors could not think of anything else than ... how old Traore! Published in the newspaper jednostronnicowy material, unfortunately, was only a small shortcut. Unable to get beyond the photo evidence and to prove that football Lubin Basin lies, he never played for the club ASC Jaraaf. Maybe someday editors decide to send me to Senegal? I am convinced that You can get to the real birth certificate, Traore.
Puzzle century
Traore ("Sports Review", 5/12/2010)
do not know him. Hmm ... Never heard of him. Thies also played in? Oh ... I do not know. I did not check whether the game somewhere else Mouhamadou Traore. I came to Polish for the first time two years ago. Maybe if I had arrived earlier, I had a chance to know him - Mouhamadou Traore (PHOTO 1), football player Lubin Basin from the Senegalese city of Thies, makes big eyes asked o. .. Senegalese Mouhamadou Traore (PHOTO 2), also a striker with that same Thies, who in February 2004 was tested by Wisla Krakow. Then the club's player of Senegalese Dakar ASC Jaraaf trained with masters of Polish for a week in Monastir (Tunisia). The documents, which then presented, that was born on 16 April 1982. Date of Birth striker Basin? April 16, only 1986. Normal bone LIFESTYLES coincidence or a hoax, however?
Ever 22-year
camp in Tunisia on 22-year-old striker played 90 minutes Jaraaf in the colors of the Vistula in the match against AS Marsa (4-0) and came off the bench in sparring with Hamman (5-0). But not impressed enough to sign a contract and politely thanked him. Żaden z wiślaków go nie zapamiętał, podobnie jak trener Henryk Kasperczak. Cztery lata później do Polski przyjechał obecny piłkarz Zagłębia Lubin o takim samym imieniu i nazwisku, o bardzo podobnym wyglądzie, urodzony tego samego dnia i miesiąca, pochodzący z tego samego miasta. Silny, zdolny, rześki i co najważniejsze dla kontrahentów - ledwie 22-letni... A może znów 22-letni?
Spisek?
Na tę przypadkową zbieżność faktów i zastanawiającą niezgodność dat urodzenia po raz pierwszy zwrócił uwagę jeden z kibiców, który swoimi wątpliwościami podzielił się the blog "ilelatmatraore.blogspot.pl." We decided to further this casual look.'s really hard to resist the impression that the player tested by the Vistula River Basin, and Traore is the same figure, but different - retracted - passport. Or maybe it's just prone to conspiracy theories and overly suspicious? Similarly suspicious Salif Diallo, however, is dealing with the football league for years in Senegal, a journalist of the local news agency APS, which sent eight pictures, including two that we publish.
This is the same
- It is certainly the same person. I remember when I played in Jaraaf Traore (This is what the club in 2004, came to test the Vistula Senegalese striker - ed.). He arrived there with the U.S. Rail Thies. He had a great entrance, good first season. His problems began only when he went to Morocco coach Lamine Dieng. Traore had to go to the CSS Richard-Toll - says the journalist. This is the club went to Lubin Traore, who today represents the strength of the Basin.
problem is that the CV of the current team's player of the Lubin there is no mention of the fact that he played in Jaraaf ever. According to documents just went to the Polish CSS Richard-Toll, and claims that previously represented the only color of U.S. Rail Thies. All the time, however, thinks that a player from Lubin does not associate his elder by four years namesake, the country and a man who shares in the football CV to him at least one club. Do Traore could remove from his curriculum vitae under the title of the position Jaraaf (2002-2005)? But why would he do that? One can only speculate that it was a rejuvenation and the blurring of the impression that he was a 22-year-old striker Jaraaf on tests in Wisla Krakow. Search
wind field
for help in establishing the facts - Salif Diallo apart - we asked the Khalifa Ndiaye, head of sport in the Senegalese newspaper "Le Soleil". What could be simpler than to go to the federation office and ask for the relevant documents? It's easy to see what the date of birth could be seen on the certificate of Jaraaf Traore - this test in the Vistula - and whether it's the same person as Traore of the Basin. Both, however, Khalifa, and Diallo collided with the wall. Up to 2007, Senegal was the amateur league. There was no mention of any of the computerization, the majority of clubs today is not even connected to the Internet. The League is not broadcast on any television. - Nobody we do not deal with such matters as the conduct of any database. Only recently, the first computers - Diallo explains.
Senegal
standard - whether the problem is to determine the exact number of goals scored. We are not able to determine his date of birth. Some here are two or even three birth certificates. Once, in Senegal, it happened very often. Footballers and basketball players have changed their legal age to have a greater chance of a career. At the moment it is difficult, passports are biometric, but reversing the meter is still occurring - Khalifa explains, then adds that the only ability to confirm the identity of a player Basin is just ... Traore pictures show people in a stadium in Dakar.
not receive
No newspaper in Senegal has never seemed a kind of "Fan of the Treasury, the lack of television coverage we have already mentioned. Therefore, in fact the only source of information may be the memory of people - even a journalist, traveling around the country, just like Salif Diallo. Others have only a chance for residual, torn apart and nieukładające in all the information about the league. Some of transfer moves and dates of birth of players remain unknown to ordinary fans throughout the length of footballers' careers. This is an ideal field for scams, rejuvenation for several years after leaving to another continent. Knowing the difficulties which must overcome the seeker of truth, do not even need a special mask.
Just do not admit
West Africa, including Senegal, is indeed a place that many years of dealings of suspected counterfeit passports. Among the names of the suspects are much bigger than Traore from Lubin.
- El-Hadjiego Diouf (m.in Liverpool) were accused of being rejuvenated by up to seven or eight years. Before he left for Europe, with allegedly 17 years old, for many seasons since he played in the south of the country - says one of the journalists, who reserves the anonymity. Prudence, moreover, retains all of the interviewees.
Traore for tests to come from the Vistula Jaraaf. Many could have explained Lamine Dieng, who then pulled him from Thies. - This is one of the best strikers I have ever had. In 2004 we won the championship, and he played in most matches. Later I was offered from Moroccan club and I left. I went back recently and I have never met him. I did not see that it is in Poland. I've lost contact with him - he argues. When we ask how many years has Traore, Dieng starts, however obscure .- I do not know. There were so many players. I'm an older man, I have 59 years. I have to look at my notes and see what happened. Call for two hours - he said, and never picked up the phone. For ten days reject all calls, no matter - from the Polish area code, or reserved.
Can I make a mistake
problems with an open conversation the age Traore has also Pape Samba Ba, who played five years in Poland (Lech Poznan), were representative of Senegal.
- Can you give a number to your brother, Mamadou - ask.
- And for what?
- Traore played with the Olympic Jaraaf and faculty. We want to ask him some questions. We present a silhouette Traore.
- I tell you everything! Go ahead. I know him too well - it provides.
But when we say to him that football Basin claims that he never played Jaraaf, Ba lose self-assurance. - What are you, you write a book about him? - Asks aggressively. - Contact with him. He tells you to do everything myself. I can do something wrong. Maybe with my brother met only in the frame, and not at the club? - Confusing clues, and one of the messages the agency APS, which is included on the list established Traore Mamadou and his brother (both Jaraaf) calls "the possible mistake of journalists." Diallo, who prepared the note and saw Traore also matches the Olympic team, provides it is not true.
- Rejuvenating the exit to Europe is a common thing in Senegalese football. If you make a new birth certificate, you have the right to apply for a new passport - comments Tydi Sy, a journalist with the Dakar. - I doubt that anyone you something he said. People be ashamed of. Everyone knows that it happens, but they also know that it's a crime and a matter for the police.
Perhaps we will never know the truth. The answer probably lies Mouhamadou Traore somewhere on the dusty shelves at the headquarters of the Senegalese federation, which nobody touched for years, or in the contents of the notes of the first coaching career Lubin Basin. But Lamine Dieng ever answer the phone?
