LAGOS, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso's Under-17 national team coach Rainer Wilfeld has commended FIFA for introducing the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) test to determine the age of players.

    Wilfeld told sportswriters on Tuesday in southeast Nigeria's Enugu State that the device would help to guard against age falsification by players.

    He charged FIFA to continue with the doping test for players in all its tournaments.

    "It is the best not only for African football but also for the world soccer in general," the German said.

    On Burkina Faso's preparation for its next match against New Zealand on Wednesday, Wilfeld said they had corrected their mistakes during the first match with Turkey, saying they would win.

    He said apart from the three players who were playing for Feyenoord Fetteh of Ghana, others were home-based and inexperienced players.

    Burkina Faso lost their first match to Turkey by a lone goal. The coach said he fished out the players when they were on a vacation.

    "In a World Cup championship like this, there are no big teams; small teams can defeat the so-called big ones," he added.

    He said his major challenge was the short time he had to train the players, noting that he started handling them barely two months to the tournament.

    Wilfeld said he was handling the country's Under-20 players when he was asked to take over the junior team in August after the sack of the former coach.

    He said African countries lacked an organized academy for young players, adding that they should not wait for tournaments to train their players.