By Emmanuel Muga BBC Sport Online in Dar es Salaam

Tanzania's interim coach Salum Madadi has decided to abandon his experiment with youth and has named a number of older, more experienced players in the squad to face Sudan in the African Nations Cup qualifier next month.

Tanzania lost 4-0 to Benin in the opening match of Group 3 earlier this month and Madadi blamed the results to lack of experience by predominantly Under-20 players.

Benin stay on track

But most of the experienced players who remain active and helped the team win last year's Castle Cup, like Nteze John, Joseph Kaniki and Yusuph Macho, are not allowed to play because the Tanzanian FA accuses them of sabotage in a friendly match against Kenya earlier this year.

This has meant Madadi has had to pick players who last played international football in the 1990s.

The most surprising inclusion is Simba SC's 43-year-old assistant coach Madaraka Selemani, who is being called from full player retirement.

Selemani is recalled at the age of 43

33-year-old Edibily Lunyamila, who reached his playing peak back in the early 1990s, has also been selected.

"These guys will collapse in the pitch" one Taifa Stars player told BBC Sport Online, commenting on the inclusion of the duo.

Meanwhile, FA chairman Muhidini Ndolanga has for the first time hit back at critics who say that the failure of the national team and Tanzanian football in general is due to corruption and incompetence in FAT.

"[Government party] CCM allege that we bribe our way into power, but the same CCM politicians bribe their voters," he said.

"During elections, it is a harvest period to people in various constituencies.

"They allege that our elective committee of 63 people is easy to bribe up and therefore it should be expanded, but the number is not the factor since these politicians are able to bribe the electorate of more than 25,000 people," he added.

The claims were in response to a call by CCM MP Venance Moto that the government appoint a FAT caretaker-committee to rescue the Taifa Stars in the wake of the Benin humiliation. Ndolanga who has been in power since 1993, is accused of failing the Tanzania soccer but attempts to unseat him have always failed thanks to FIFA policy forbidding governments' intervention in soccer affairs.