Many African teenagers who love to play football are sold in the South Asian country Nepal. Yes, you hear right, Agents told them they would give a chance for them to play for English Premier League clubs and at last they sold them in Nepal. I am also from Nepal, and I fell sad for their condition. I have written everything in detail so please read this post & share with other too. So that other young teenager from Africa doesn’t get sold here.

African Players Practicing Football in Naya Bazar Kathmandu (Source)

The African country has many teenagers who have football craze. They make dreams to play for bigger European clubs. Many agents are searching for the young teenager in Africa. Those Agents told the teenager that they will give them a chance to play in English Premier League clubs or other European clubs. They ask them to pay at least $3000 to start their carrier. As we all know that the economic condition of peoples living in African countries isn’t good. But due to their football craze, many teenagers manage and pay money to those Agents.

After they pay money to agents, Agents bring them in countries like Nepal. Nepal is a naturally beautiful country, but this is not the right place for footballers. The condition of football is worse in Nepal. Nepal is ranked 167th in FIFA World Ranking. After the big earthquake in 2015 Dasharat stadium is destroyed. Where League was organized by ANFA( All Nepal Football Association). There are very few football tournaments and no league football.

Young African Playing Football in Dusty Ground (Source)

Then most of them feel that they have been sold, but it’s already too late. African and Nepali agents tell them that they will get a chance to play in League football and they can get selected for Premier League Clubs if they play well. And in maximum cases, agents leave them. They need to pay agents for playing in tournaments from different clubs. These clubs pay very few to these players.

There are hundred’s of African players who are struggling in Nepal. One of Nepali Local Newspaper had interviewed Aboubacar Sidibe and some other players & later it was also posted on Thegurdain, 

Like thousands of football-mad teenagers in Mali, Aboubacar Sidibé dreamed of one day playing for Chelsea. So when a football manager approached him with the promise of a contract with a club in India – a launchpad, he was told, to the European clubs – he jumped at the chance.
It didn’t matter that he was just 17. Or that he would have to pay the manager more than £2,700. It seemed a price worth paying to kickstart his football career.
Weeks later, Sidibé was indeed playing football abroad, but he was no closer to Stamford Bridge. Instead, he found himself kicking a torn football around a dusty pitch in a country he had never heard of before
“When I arrived it wasn’t what manager told me...Every time I get in touch with him, he says it’ll be OK. But will not be OK. I hate him. He cheated on me”. These players were cheated by Agents and sold in Nepal.
“ I had never heard Nepal before I came here. It’s a country for tourists. It’s not a place to come and earn a living.”
“ I was earning more in Mali than I earn now..I’m trying to get out and play in another country.”
“ I have to pay back my best. I’m so demoralized..we don’t have enough to eat. At night we lie down, but we don’t sleep.”
“ I regret coming here. I have played only four or five matches in last five months..we are suffering here. It’s very difficult.”
Another teenager from Ivory Coast Die Lekpahisaira
“ Our dream is to play with big teams in Europe.”
“ European manager come to Asia to scout talent, so we come here to get exposure..if they see we have talents they will tell others.”
“ You finish a match at 6 pm, get on a night bus to the other side of the country, and are expected to play again at 3 pm...And if you lose the first round you are out, so we pray we win the first match.” Says another African player Leo Mballa
“Agents demand up to 185 Euro to find them a place in a team, if you don’t pay, you don’t play,” Says Mballa.
“ People here find any way they can do make money {From Footballers}. They bring people here who don’t even know how to play football...They don’t think about players who come, they only think about their own pockets” says Mballa.

These player are only a few examples; there are more thousands of African teenagers who are living a difficult life in Nepal, India and some other South Asian countries. These fraud Agents told them that they are managers and scouting for players. And young football crazy teenagers belive them and pay them big money. At last agents leave them in the country like Nepal where Football is not developed. They also told that they need to play some games here, and they will select them for big clubs, but that’s not true. They don’t select any players; they are fraud. So the players need to search the club for themselves. It’s very difficult to make money by playing Football here.

African footballers and some Nepali Footballers (Source)

Football isn’t developed here. There are few tournaments, and players get very few money. Even the players in our country don’t depend on football. So it’s very much difficult for foreigners who wish to play here. Not only in our country but the condition is the same in all South Asian countries.

I think there are many African peoples in Scorum. So I have shared here to let them know the reality here. If someone is asking you that he will give you a chance to play football for EPL clubs or other European clubs. Please don’t belive them, know everything details so that you can’t pay money to the Fraud Agents. I think if they aren’t fraud they may not ask big money with you. So always become aware of these kinds of Frauds who call themselves Manager.

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