The shared birth date is the detail at the center of a Jyllands-Posten investigation published on 6 July that placed the Danish Superliga champions’ Ugandan talent pipeline under uncomfortable scrutiny. Two teenagers, developed at the same academy, signed by the same European club, born on the exact same day.
El Cambio founder and CEO Thomas Thor Madsen dismissed the overlap as chance, telling Jyllands-Posten it was “a coincidence” that Bogere and Sengooba shared the same birthday.
AGF signed the pair in December 2025 on contracts running until 30 June 2028, and both joined the club’s U19 setup in February 2026. Bogere was fast-tracked from there, making his senior debut against FC Nordsjælland in April before Aarhus lifted the Danish Superliga title in May.
A whistleblower and a government probe
Uganda’s National Bureau for NGOs has been investigating El Cambio’s Masaka operation since 2024, after Internal Affairs Minister Gen Kahinda Otafiire forwarded a petition from one of the academy’s own co-founding officials.
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Among the accusations: that loopholes in NIRA, Uganda’s national identity registration authority, were exploited to change the registered ages of children and academy players, and that birth certificates, national ID numbers and passports were altered to make talents look younger to European scouts. A separate police file, CRB/277/2024, was opened in Masaka on the same set of complaints.
The probe is not closed.
“The Minister forwarded the complaint to us and we have met the parties involved and the investigations is still ongoing,” NGO Bureau executive director David Okello said.
AGF says the federation checked
Jyllands-Posten reported that AGF was advised by an expert to look into age discrepancies among players from El Cambio before completing any signings, and that the club went ahead regardless. AGF’s defense is that Bogere and Sengooba had spent seven and eight years at the academy respectively, and that their ages had been verified and approved by the Federation of Uganda Football Associations when the pair played at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar in 2025.
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The club has acknowledged it did not carry out its own age-verification checks on the two teenagers, relying instead on El Cambio’s assurances and the federation’s clearance.
Why the AGF case is different
Age manipulation in African football is not a new story. It has been documented across the continent for years, driven by patchy birth registration and the plain financial incentive to look younger for European scouts.
What sets this case apart is how specific it is: a named European club, a named academy already sitting under a government investigation, two named teenagers with identical officially registered birthdays, and, per Jyllands-Posten, a warning that landed before the contracts were signed.
The El Cambio-AGF collaboration is a 15-year agreement signed in May 2024. AGF’s sporting director Michael Kryger is based on the ground in Masaka, and further academy expansion, including dormitories, is planned inside the next 18 months.
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