Falcao age debate dismissed

The row was created by the new Monaco signing's former school head teacher claiming on local television station Noticias Uno that Falcao was born in 1984 and not 1986.

That would have made him 29 and not 27, meaning the principality club had forked out €60 million for a player two years closer to retirement than they had believed.

But newspaper El Tiempo printed a copy of his official birth certificate from the Santa Marta municipality where he was born on February 10, 1986, proving once and for all that he is indeed 27.

On Tuesday Falcao had taken to Twitter to refute the allegations saying: "I am surprised by these media reports about my age - they are ridiculous."