{"id":11210,"date":"2026-04-17T10:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/11210\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:58:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:58:51","slug":"inside-senegals-football-mafia-young-players-targeted-by-fake-recruiters-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/11210\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Senegal&#8217;s football\u00a0mafia: Young players targeted by fake recruiters \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Inside Senegal&#039;s football\u00a0mafia: Young players targeted by fake recruiters \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zViNkOnutoA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nInside Senegal&#8217;s football\u00a0mafia: Young players targeted by fake recruiters \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn Senegal, a generation of young men pin their hopes on football as a chance for a better future. These\u00a0footballers are prepared to sacrifice everything to reach foreign leagues, making them the perfect targets for fake recruiters. FRANCE 24&#8217;s Sarah\u00a0Sakho\u00a0and Simon Martin investigate this\u00a0shadowy\u00a0network and the measures being put in place to stop it. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n#Senegal #football #mafia<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this story in our article: https:\/\/f24.my\/Brre.y<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inside Senegal&#8217;s football\u00a0mafia: Young players targeted by fake recruiters \u2022 FRANCE 24 English In Senegal, a generation of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,15278,15279,2241,22,23,20,21,15280,15281,15282,7093,15283,14786,1194,15284,6269],"class_list":{"0":"post-11210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france24","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-exploitation","10":"tag-fake-recruiters","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-france-24","13":"tag-france-24-english","14":"tag-france24","15":"tag-france24-english","16":"tag-mafia","17":"tag-organised-crime","18":"tag-players","19":"tag-scam","20":"tag-scams","21":"tag-senegal","22":"tag-sport","23":"tag-youngsters","24":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116419889895445092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}