{"id":9934,"date":"2019-12-10T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2019\/12\/10\/ivory-coast-young-footballers-at-risk-from-people-smugglers\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:00:15","slug":"ivory-coast-young-footballers-at-risk-from-people-smugglers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2019\/12\/10\/ivory-coast-young-footballers-at-risk-from-people-smugglers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast: Young footballers at risk from people smugglers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>With the number of African footballers playing for teams around the world at an all-time high,\u00a0thousands of youngsters dream of following in their footsteps. According to the NGO Foot Solidaire, over 6,000 minors leave Africa every year in the hopes of being recruited abroad. Some hand over their savings to unscrupulous middlemen for the dubious promise of a trial with a foreign club. Today, both amateur and professional\u00a0players are trying to prevent aspiring African footballers from falling victim to people\u00a0smugglers.\u00a0Our Ivory Coast correspondent Tha\u00efs Brouck reports.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the number of African footballers playing for teams around the world at an all-time high,\u00a0thousands of youngsters dream of following in their footsteps. According to the NGO Foot Solidaire, over 6,000 minors leave Africa every year in the hopes of being recruited abroad. Some hand over their savings to unscrupulous middlemen for the dubious &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-9934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}