A remarkable television programme on Irish national station, RTE, last night looked at the plight of up to 20,000 young African footballers that have been defrauded by illegal agents to come to play football in Europe and subsequently being abandoned to fend for themselves on the streets of European cities.
It would seem that the abundant supply of cheap labour for European football clubs and the poverty, from which football offers a hope of escape, combine to create a situation where this shameful development in the wealthiest game in the world can progress almost unnoticed. This is also not a recent problem as a report in Spiegel showed in 2010.
It would seem that the abundant supply of cheap labour for European football clubs and the poverty, from which football offers a hope of escape, combine to create a situation where this shameful development in the wealthiest game in the world can progress almost unnoticed. This is also not a recent problem as a report in Spiegel showed in 2010.
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