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"Tony Wakama is at least three years older than what appears on his birth certificate" - voila! sport

2023-01-12T09:44:50.394Z


A Turkish player's agent claims: Ex Hapoel Beer Sheva is 36 years old today. In the past, Baali Raanana accused Jordi Cruyff of spreading rumors about his age


Tony Wakama made a name for himself in the Premier League, starred in Turkey and is currently earning huge sums in the Saudi League, but is he hiding a big secret all these years?



The Turkish actor's agent Emre Özken insists that Vakama faked his age, and in fact he is significantly older than he presents himself.

"The chances are that Wakama is at least two or three years older than what appeared on his birth certificate," the agent said yesterday (Wednesday).



On his birth documents, Wakame is listed as born in 1989. On the face of it, he should be 33 years old today.

However, the agent in question claims that this is a lie, and that his real age even caused a number of senior clubs in Turkey to give up his services last summer, when he joined Al Fayeh of Saudi Arabia on a free transfer.

Wakame left Turkey last summer despite a fantastic record of 47 goals and 40 assists in 145 appearances in the Turkish top flight.

Year of birth: 1989. Really?

Wakama (Photo: GettyImages, Seskim Photo/MB Media)

In 2022, he even marched Trabzonspor to the championship after a 38-year drought.

Still, despite his impressive ability, more senior teams did not rush to sign him and in the end he chose the Saudi money, and should soon meet Cristiano Ronaldo for a duel.



Wakame is of course not the first African actor whose true age has been rumored.

But there are those who claim that the origin of the rumors regarding Wakama came from Israel at all and that the person responsible for them is none other than Jordi Cruyff.



And so the owner of Hapoel Ra'anana, Damien Rothman, told in an interview he gave to Walla!

Sport in 2017: "Maccabi Haifa were the first to come and see Wakama. I told them he was a player who would upgrade the team. I sat with Stanoivitch and Shahar, and the coach told me like this: 'He doesn't have a left leg, he doesn't have a right leg.' Then he moved on to his age , as if it is true that he is older than what is written and that I falsified Wakama's age."

Is it all his fault?

Jordi Cruyff (photo: Bernie Ardov)

Rothman claimed at the time that Cruyff, the professional manager of Maccabi Tel Aviv at the time, spread the rumors as part of a personal revenge campaign.

"Jordi spread throughout the State of Israel that his friends in Cyprus claim that Wakama is 32 years old. It doesn't work like that in the world," said Rothman.

"When Barcelona buys players from the smaller clubs, or Real Madrid for that matter, they pay high prices because it's Barcelona and Real Madrid. In Israel everything is personal. Did you annoy me in the manager? So I won't sell you a player. Did you do something to me? So I'll pay you back Everything here is ego."

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