Africa has a new natural resource it’s exporting — thousands of young soccer players, recruited to the continent’s exploding number of academies, the best of whom are shopped around by agents or funneled to European clubs that work around the E.U.’s human trafficking laws. The rest are discarded, either at home on on Europe’s streets. Indigenous NGOs fight the trade, but demand grows daily — and the exposure the World Cup brings the continent will only make things worse. (Christoph Biermann and Maik Grossekathofer/Spiegel Online; HT: The Goal Post.)
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