The Lost Boys
Bloomsbury Sport (Verlag)
978-1-4729-1496-5 (ISBN)
From South America and Africa, kids as young as 13 are leaving poverty-stricken families for a new life in Europe, having been sold the vision of untold riches and the trappings of professional football. This is football’s slave trade – the beautiful game turned ugly.
Talent-spotted by scouts, these kids are told they could be ‘the next big thing’. But the reality is very different. Having spent their family's life savings to join a much-hyped academy, they soon discover the academies barely exist and that they have been exploited.
Only a tiny percentage of the hopefuls are chosen just to be coached for the slim chance of a professional contract; the rest are abandoned. With no money to go home – let alone the confidence to face their heartbroken families – the Lost Boys find themselves stuck in the country they have been trafficked to, with crime often their only means of survival.
From the author of Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy (shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 2013's book of the year), The Lost Boys exposes for the first time the anatomy of football’s human-trafficking scandal, the extent of the abuse, and how it ruins lives and threatens the credibility of the sport.
With unique access to a charity trying to rescue and repatriate the children and a special investigative unit set up to stem the problem, Ed Hawkins gets under the fingernails of one of the most serious and heart-rending issues in sport today.
Lost Boys is investigative journalism at its best: shocking, moving, and hoping to make a real difference.
Ed Hawkins is an award-winning sports journalist. He has twice been named the Sports Journalists Association's Sports Betting Writer of the Year. His previous book, Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and was Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2013 book of the year. He lives in London.
Fifa Regulations for International Transfers Involving Minors
Introduction
1 Jay-Jay
2 Foot Solidaire
3 Anatomy of a Con
4 Ben's Story
5 Scout Network
6 Drawing the Sting
7 The Illegal Match
8 'I Have Integrity'
9 Jay-Jay's Chance
10 England Exploits
11 Sulley's Story
12 Slave Trade
13 Out of Africa
14 The Forsythe Saga
15 Didier's Story
16 'We Don't Care Who You Are'
17 Aspire
18 'Please Help Me'
19 Lost Boys
20 Run
21 Searching for the Truth
22 Amane's Story
23 The Perfect Storm
24 The End
Glossary and Cast of Characters
Bibliography and Sources
Acknowledgements
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.07.2016 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 205 g |
| Themenwelt | Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4729-1496-1 / 1472914961 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4729-1496-5 / 9781472914965 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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