{"id":10792,"date":"2025-05-18T17:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2025\/05\/18\/how-false-agents-ruined-the-life-of-a-ghanaian-football-player\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T17:35:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T17:35:41","slug":"how-false-agents-ruined-the-life-of-a-ghanaian-football-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/2025\/05\/18\/how-false-agents-ruined-the-life-of-a-ghanaian-football-player\/","title":{"rendered":"How false agents ruined the life of a Ghanaian football player"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Introduction to Football Trade<\/h2>\n<p>For boys in all of Africa, football is more than just a game. It is the dream of a better life.<\/p>\n<h2>The Reality of Football Trade<\/h2>\n<p>&quot;Football trade&quot; includes &quot;agents&quot; who offer young football players fake contracts in Europe or Asia, bring them abroad and then leave them often.<\/p>\n<h2>A Personal Story<\/h2>\n<p>Abdul Gafar was one of these young players who fell victim to this scam, highlighting the harsh realities of the &quot;football trade&quot; and its devastating impact on young lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction to Football Trade For boys in all of Africa, football is more than just a game. It is the dream of a better life. The Reality of Football Trade &quot;Football trade&quot; includes &quot;agents&quot; who offer young football players fake contracts in Europe or Asia, bring them abroad and then leave them often. A Personal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10794,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10792\/revisions\/10794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}