"At passport control, on December 27, he (Agali) was found to be in possession of a fake passport," said gendarmerie spokesman Robert van Kapel.
Upon further investigation, the 31-year-old striker in transit at Schiphol on a voyage from Lagos to Athens, turned out to have two sets of fake travel documents, said Van Kapel.
"In the one, the page with his personal particulars has been modified, in the other it was the visa," he said.
A panel of judges will decide on Wednesday whether or not to extend the footballer's provisional detention, said a spokeswoman for the Haarlem district court.
Agali, who had been returning to Greece after visiting his wife and child in Nigeria, pleads innocence, his lawyer Bob Kaarls told AFP.
"The (first) passport judged problematic by officials was sent to him in this form by post by Nigerian authorities in 2007," he said.
Dutch authorities claimed that the Schengen visa contained in the second document, issued by Cyprus, did not meet the requisite standards, said Kaarls.
Kaarls said Levadiakos has indicated its willingness to pay the bail to secure their striker's freedom.
Agali has played for French teams including Marseille (1996-97), Toulon (1997-98) and Nice (2004-2005), as well as Germany's Schalke 04 (2001-2004).




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A closer look at amodu’s 23 eagles reveals that he is going to Angola with the same players berti vogts took to Ghana 2 yrs ago, except for 6 changes:
GK: No changes
DF: 3 changes-
Echiejile for Emeghara
Odiah for Afolabi
Yusuf Mohd
MF: 2 changes
Ayila for Eromoigbe
Kalu for Okonkwo
FW: 1 change
Obasi for Utaka
Pep inherited all Rijkards players except for 4 players- Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Seydou Keita, Daniel Alves and Gerard Pique, all of whom took the place(s) of Deco, Henrik Larsson, Ludovic Giuly and Ronaldinho. Pep went on to win 6 titles in 18 months, becoming the first (and only, of course) coach to achieve such a feat.
Amodu has made 6 changes to berti vogts eagles. Will the SE under Amodu in Angola be another Barca under Pep? I pray so, but only time will tell.
I wish amodu, his crew and the SE success in Angola.
I have read on this blog several postings heaping praise uopn praise on the Ghana coach, Rajevac. The reason is not far fetched.
The Ghana squad for AFCON represents what a lot of Nigerians (or forumites) are clamouring for. Of 23 named players, 8 are from the U20 WC winning side in Egypt this year. 8! These 8 boys played in the same U17 tournament in 2007 with Rabiu, Haruna, Alfa et al and then graduated to the U20. Now they are in the national team, the black stars and will be fielded in Angola in about 7 days time.
Thus the squads presented by Nigeria and Ghana contrast very sharply and will thus make for an interesting experimental study: ‘old’ vs youth, 'experience' vs adventurous. Age, pace, tactics, deployments and experience will come into play.Going by the aforementioned postings, more than 95% of forumited have already given it to the black stars should we face them at any stage in Angola.
I therefore want to declare that if Ghana has a better AFCON outing than the SE, the anti-Amodu’s would have made their point. But if Nigeria has a better outing, I think the issue of Amodu this, Amodu that will be laid to rest finally. A SE vs Black Stars match will make for the perfect laboratory for the IDEAL EXPERIMENT.
Does anyone agree? I cant wait!
@Di maria!! i hope you have a change of heart brother!! violent is never the answer.There is nothing that justifiy killing inocient people in the holy Quran bro!!
@Di maria!! i hope you have a change of heart brother!! violent is never the answer.There is nothing that justifiy killing inocient people in the holy Quran bro!!
Siemo Australia (advise no be curse o)
Just because of one useless, umtrained Mutallab, who is a spoiled brat who never stay under the roof of his parents to be trained, then we are concluding everyone in nigeria is bad, that is just not fair enough.
If we dont respect ourselves or trust ourselves, how then do you want others to respect and trust us.
They never say the two passport belong to another person. It belong to him. I believe since he travels alot because his family lives in Nigeria and he works in Greece, one of the passport must have been exausted there by making him procuring the second one which he will need to attach to the first one. Please if you dont know too much dont just write rubbish on this page as lots of people read this page. God bless you all. Praying that God redeem the battered image of our beloved country- Nigeria
It may really sound absurd but we really have to think about the issue of NIGERIA remaining one? our leaders have collectively failed us and the only way forward now is really to call for a sovereign National conference which most of our leaders have been shying away from.
THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH