South African women's soccer team have lodged an official complaint against Equatorial Guinea for allegedly fielding two male players, a South African newspaper reported on Tuesday.

The South African team, known as Banyana Banyana (girls), lodged the complaint with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Monday, reported "The Citizen".

This comes after Banyana secured a place in the next round of the qualifying stage for the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a 4-2 victory (5-4 aggregate) over Equatorial Guinea in the return match in Pretoria, capital of South Africa, on Sunday.

Citing the Kick-off, a local soccer website, the newspaper said the team manager Fran Hilton-Smith was furious as she believes two of the Equatorial Guinea players, Salaimata and Simpore Bilguisa, are not women.

"Those players are not girls, they look like boys. We will send all the evidence I have on the players, who have more male characteristics than female ones," Hilton-Smith was quoted as saying.

"They are masculine and we assume from the doctors that they have both female and male organs, though male hormones dominate."

"The saliva tests will prove that. No physical examination is allowed by FIFA (the international soccer governing body) in the dressing rooms, otherwise they would not have played," Hilton-Smith said.

"This is not the first time this has happened," she added. Suspicion over the sex of Simpore Bilguisa was also raised during the 5th African Women Championship played in Nigeria last year.

Source: Xinhua