Youngest Ever Indian Footballer to Score Banned for Fake Age Declaration

When a teenage sensation on Tim Cahill's Indian Super League team became the competition's youngest-ever goal scorer, the Socceroo legend lent in and told him: "This is the best moment in your life."

Though, as it turns out, there was slightly more to that life than Cahill and the league had been led to believe.

Some 12 years, give or take.

For Gourav Mukhi was not the 16-year-old tyro breaking scoring records, rather a 28-year-old veteran with less of his future ahead of him.

He has now been banned for six months for falsely claiming otherwise.

It was in October this year that Mukhi scored the equaliser in Jamshedpur FC's 2-2 draw with Bengaluru FC that got Cahill and others so excited.

In light of his clerical error he is now barred from playing and has had his club's registration pulled for failing to provide evidence to back up the original claim as to his true age.

"The AIFF Disciplinary Committee found the player Gourav Mukhi guilty on the basis of the evidence presented by him, his admissions and the statements of Manager of U-16 AIFF academy in 2015," reads a statement from the All India Football Federation.

He also has a very luscious moustache he has been sporting all season.

But also, a quick review of his social media accounts would have been enough to cast doubt on the veracity of his claim to still being in his teens, his personal info on his Facebook page stating he was "born on April 5, 1999".

And even an uplifting feature, published earlier this year, on the actually-not-so-young star's journey from modest beginnings to the top of the domestic game in the Telegraph of India told a "story of sheer tenacity and passion for the 28-year-old striker".

It is said that investigation is still ongoing but he has been banned meantime.

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