{"id":426293,"date":"2017-10-07T09:21:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T09:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/07\/agents-cheat-young-footballers-derek-boateng\/"},"modified":"2017-10-07T09:21:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T09:21:37","slug":"agents-cheat-young-footballers-derek-boateng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/07\/agents-cheat-young-footballers-derek-boateng\/","title":{"rendered":"Agents cheat young footballers &#8211; Derek Boateng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/52242115.295.jpg\" alt=\"Derek Boateng Ghweb\" title=\"Derek Boateng Ghweb\" width=\"295\" height=\"190\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Black Stars player, Derek Boateng<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385127052\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385127052\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1507368097_353_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Former Black Stars player, Derek Boateng, has sounded a strong warning to the Ghanaian youth who have picked up the profession of playing football, to use the right channel to ply their trade and should be careful of crook agents who lure them to abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Many young footballers in Ghana are unable to make it to the top considering their talents and are normally left frustrated by fake agents who capitalize on their desperation as they are unable to make any monetary gains in their football career.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Football Legends Night Show on GH ONE TV  yesterday, Boateng highlighted the major problem of many young footballers who desperate to ply the trade in Europe as numerous football agents capitalize on this desperation and take advantage of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the young players go to Europe early because they want to make it, but the problem is that we don\u2019t go through good agents and the right channels, \u201d Boateng said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo most of the agents end up fooling us because they know that we always want to go Europe and we don\u2019t normally look at the contract because of our desire to play in Europe which I consider as the main problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Black Stars player, Derek Boateng &#13; Former Black Stars player, Derek Boateng, has sounded a strong warning to the Ghanaian youth who have picked up the profession of playing football, to use the right channel to ply their trade and should be careful of crook agents who lure them to abroad. 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