You can’t judge a book by its cover but you may be able to judge an Indian soccer player by his mustache.
However, officials at the All India Football Federation were either unwilling, or unable, to do that as they ignored Gourav Mukhi’s lip rug and treated him as if he was a teen prodigy – even though is actually 28.
A star in the Indian Super League for Jamshedpur FC, Mukhi was recognized earlier this year for scoring a goal at the age of 16 and becoming the youngest player to ever score in the ISL.
It’s a curious mistake as a piece in The Telegraph from October about Mukhi’s upbringing clearly referred to him as a “28-year-old striker.”
Mukhi has been suspended six months for the transgression.
Indian soccer player Gourav Mukhi has been suspended 6 months for pretending to be 16 years old. He scored a goal in a recent Indian Super League match "supposedly" making him as the youngest goal scorer in league history pic.twitter.com/A6H55H4v2S
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