I don’t know anything about the lads background but I do know that there was a big debate about Roger Milla’s true age as well with it being claimed he was even older than was thought.
The problem is (& I don’t know if it applies to this lad/fella) is that if you’re are born out in the sticks in some isolated village it’s unlikely that one of the first things you are going to do is travel a huge distance to register your kids birth. In many countries they will send out officials to register births & it can be several years between visits to your village so all the kids who’ve been born in that period get registered with the same date of birth. I read that Milla could have been as much as 7 or 8 years older than was claimed.
Could be the same with this mon coz he certainly looks older than 17
or he could have just forged a birth certificate
or he could be 17