Joy Sports can confirm that three members of Ghana’s Black Starlets have undergone FIFA’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) test, to check a players’ age.

The MRI test ascertains a players’ age through the bone structure.

After the first round of matches, the FIFA technical committee randomly selected eight players who undertook the scan.

Joy Sports can confirm that the trio of striker Opoku Agyemang, James Tagoe and Collins Boateng were tested under the Magnetic Resonance Imaging device.

The outcome of the test would not be revealed by FIFA though it is in accordance with the tournament’s rules that countries participating in this year's competition will have their players undergo a mandatory test to determine their physiological age.

Experts say the MRI, which is an advanced form of X-ray, provides the age of a player with an error margin of plus or minus one year.

FIFA says the introduction of this device is primarily aimed at flushing out cheating that has often pervaded the age-limit competitions.

But the FIFA's directive may not necessarily disqualify any culprit, but to offer the world football government body a fair idea as to the degree of cheating in such a competition.

However, Black Starlets coach David Duncan leads out his team in the second match of the ongoing world under 17 cup against another Latin American side, Costa Rica.

After riding their luck in the first game against hosts Peru, the Starlets need a win in today’s match to ease their nerves in the battle to qualify from the group.

A ten-man starlets side struggled to draw 1-1 with the Peruvians in the first game.