The Bedge wrote:whufc wrote:Im only a very casual amateurs' league football follower but I had to laugh a couple of seasons ago a northern suburbs football club was playing players and using a variety of different names to play unregistered footballers.
Adelaide is far too small a place - even smaller these days with social media and technology - to try this sort of stuff in this day and age.
With the Indians and cricket, it's actually amazing how many of them have multiple ID's - they just change their names around and play under a different name.. they just love playing the game that much.
This is rife in the amateur soccer league where Ajok Deng becomes Deng Ajok and vice versa on a regular basis. Even harder to track when hundreds of players in the amateur league share the same government issued birthdates.
The new arrivals have added an amazing element to the soccer comps in SA including lifting the standard significant but the league has never been able to get control of the registration element of this. Especially with players playing federation soccer on a Saturday and then amatuers on a Sunday.