Jamaica's Reggae Boyz football team fitness coach, Junior McBean was sentenced in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court when he pleaded guilty to identity theft on Thursday.

McBean was ordered to serve 480 hours of community service after pleading guilty to identity theft.

McBean was charged with identity theft and forgery after he submitted forged documents in the name of Junior Samuels to the Immigration Department in order to obtain a new passport.

Reports are that McBean submitted his passport and other documents bearing the name "Junior Samuels."

It was further reported that checks by the the Immigration Department found that the birth certificate he submitted was also forged.

The document was reportedly in the name "Shaun Anthony Samuels".

He was preparing to travel with the football team to Cayman and was arrested when he went to collect his passport.

His attorney, K Churchill Neita had explained to the court that more than 20 years ago, a football coach gave him the fake birth certificate in order to get him onto a football team for which he was too old to play.