New Delhi: The All India Football Federation’s apparent approval of two players who have failed age-verification tests to continue playing in the ongoing sub-junior boys’ national championship for the prestigious BC Roy Trophy has led to its competitions committee chairperson offering to resign as a mark of protest.

On Tuesday, question marks were raised over presence of two players in the Delhi side that won 4-2 against Punjab at Amritsar’s Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib Football Stadium.

The two players in question had earlier failed in their TW3 tests used for age verification, a mandatory criterion for participation in AIFF’s youth championships.

Rules suggest either these players clear their names in re-tests conducted at any AIFF-accredited medical lab or get chalked off from the Delhi

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