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Football, I would say, is the
number one sports here in Ghana.

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Both, kids and adults,
everyone lives football.

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In every country in the world there are
people who are passionate about football.

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But the proudest and the most fierce fans are
found in the poorest continent of our planet.

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Here in Africa the brutality
of poverty is unbelievable -

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but at the same time we come along
an enormous love towards the game.

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The dream of many
young people is a footballcareer.

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On TV and online: Football everywhere.

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Through the division of the day of play the
dfl could triple the revenues of the clubs

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through the TV in only 10 years.

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To over one billion Euros.

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But many clubs want even more money.

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But many clubs want even more money.

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They refere to the competitive position
towards the english premier league.

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Their clubs cash due to the
actual TV-contract 6.9 billion Euros.

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Football is a dream factory
on a Hollywood level.

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The only 20 year-old dembélée strikes
himself from dortmund to Barcelona

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for a transfer fee of far more
than 100 million Euros.

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A star like lewandowski
gets a million-sallary in Munich.

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But still he wants to play at real Madrid
where he would earn even more money.

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Although the trailer
doesn't look like that,

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it's been long since football
was only a game for simple people.

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But there is no limit.

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Welcome in France, neymar
switches to Paris Saint-germain.

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The latest record-transfer.

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Paris pays 222 million Euros
transfer fee for neymar.

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A contravention of
the financial fair play

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but the first 300 million Euros
deal is already in process.

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These sums remain utopian
for many players and clubs.

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We also see a development in sports like in
the society and it's not positive at all.

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Big differences
between rich and poor

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the very great get richer and richer while
it strains the clubs, the associations

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and as well the players

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and the chances for the really
small to keep up continues decreasing

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and if the balance vanishes
completely it will naturally get difficult.

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This trend is not new at all

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already in the past players here
in Germany had to notice that inequality.

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I was in Germany myself
and I didn't understand German.

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I couldn't read it either.

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I signed an agreement that
was completely written in German.

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How should I understand it?

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I signed a five-year-deal, from
which I thought it was a two-year-deal.

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In the case of Charles akonnor, also called ck,
no one can claim to not have known anything.

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Because in the year 2010 the case was already
discussed publically in the German TV.

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What was the matter?
Did you sign a bad deal?

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Well, I don't want to say it like that,

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but I had a two-year-contract

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and two years of option and
then another year of option,

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that means I played there for 5 years.

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And from the beginning you
want to come here and play here

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but when you notice how this job works
you realize it's not good.

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I have been hosed or so.

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It is not a single case.

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Between the self-appointed
consultants and scouts

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there are thousands that would use any
means to cash up in this million-business.

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The abundant salaries
of the players

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the astronomical hums
of transfer fees

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and the commission
for the agents

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attract daily worldwide new businessmen in
the industry of the professional football.

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You have been dreaming of
becoming a professional.

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You want to get there.

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Back then we often watched
the "bundesliga" on the TV in Ghana.

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The big dream to escape the poverty with the
strength of the own feet and the skill at a ball

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is now as strong
as never before.

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It is dreamed by
the smallest of the small.

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Gigi is one of them.

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The almost 6 year old
gigi is all into football.

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He is one of many millions
of talented children in Africa,

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that would happily be taken by one of the
highly sophisticated footballschools.

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In a German team gigi
would rough up his companions.

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People would rumour about a once-in-a-thousand
years-talent out of the own little town

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and everybody would be proud of the little
gigi, whose rosy future lies before.

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But gigi is still here in Africa

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alone with his mother
and his siblings.

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Alone with his big dream.

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We asked the mother
what she wishes for her son.

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Education is very
important in the life of gigi

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which is the reason why I encourage
him to study a lot besides football.

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In case he shouldn't
reach the top-level

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he has to acquire high
a good education to find another job.

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How does the trainer
help with everything?

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The coach tries his best to look after the boy,
although his financial situation isn't good either.

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Therefore sometimes I have to intervene myself and
look what I can do for the coach and the boy.

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We ask the young mother how she would react

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if a stranger of Europe would offer her
a 100.000 Euros for his little gigi.

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Would she take the offer?

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Only if the agent would allow the boy
to call me to ask me how I am.

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And what would you do
with the money?

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If an agent came and
offered me a 100.000 dollars

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I'd do the following with it:

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Because the coach had to suffer a lot
with the boy and his football playing

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I would split the money
in three parts.

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One part for the boy, one part for myself
and another part for the coach.

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But it's a long way till the scouts and the
clubs will be interested in the little gigi.

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To even have a chance he first needs the possibility
to train, to play, to eat and to sleep.

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Without the little footballschools the children
here wouldn't even have shoes or a ball.

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But the training system of young players
in most of the African countries

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can't be compared at all
to ours in Europe.

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The footballschools here in Africa appear
to be youth clubs or recreation centres.

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There is no money from the government
for trainers, caretakers and conductors.

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There is also no support through
a football association or the clubs.

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The kids play with
a haywire ball on a sandfloor.

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Nothing could be more distant
to the European millioncircus.

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The only support comes from former professional
footballplayers, that befriend the kids.

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They take care of them on and
besides the football ground,

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often without
getting money for it.

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Jonathan blade is one of them.

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Sadly, most of the parents are so poor,
they rarely have food.

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Though I have my own problems
to come along.

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Sometimes I give them tasks
so they can help me.

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But mainly I do it for the children.

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The parents of the children
have no money.

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They live as simple farmers
from hand to mouth.

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I this village, everybody is a farmer.

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There are no other jobs.

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The volunteer trainers and agents hope
to mediate one of their pupils to Europe

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through scouts that wander
regularely across the country.

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Another chance are the bigger,
regional football schools.

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But those can hardly pay
for a mediation.

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The commission is very low.

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For everyone, I provide
to wafa, I get 200 Euros.

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Nevertheless, I'm their only hope.

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I only say to them:

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We don't have money.

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So when you want to achieve something,
you have to work hard.

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You have to look for yor chance.

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Despite this terms every year players out of
this conditions reach the European top-leagues.

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Mohammed of fc dreams has
already achieved considerably much

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with his small football school
and the attached football-club.

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Ever since we formed this club,
we could bring out players like baba rhaman

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who plays in Chelsea.

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Emmanuel adjei sowah,
who plays in anderlecht

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and Benjamin tetteh, who
plays in liege in Belgium.

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As well as basit Khalid, who plays in Pristina in
Kosovo and Johnson owusu oppong who plays in braga.

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Here in Africa people speak about
producing players for the world trade.

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There are different business models
how a player gets trained,

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built up and
mediated at the end.

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Because besides this
methods that appear rustic

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there are international
sponsored football schools

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like the center of excellence
of the wafa over here.

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First of all I have to go back to your first
question about the wafa and the right to dream.

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They don't provide so
successfully, as we do.

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They have a different buisness model.

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We also have direct contact to Europe.

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We assure that we travel through the whole country to look
for the best talents that we put into our youth-team.

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When we think that they are good, we
invide scouts to pick their favourites.

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Wafa, a former center
of excellence of red bull,

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that was build for several millions of dollars
in the middle of the nowhere in Africa

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follows the European
concept of football-youth work.

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High-quality pitches,

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modern technology

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and a life like
in a holiday-paradise.

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But still the success is little:

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One player in each case achieved to play in the
first and second league of the Netherlands.

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Till now, none of the protéges
of those European seeming footballschools

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could establish himself in one
of the four top leagues in Europe.

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Karel brokken is one
of the directors of the wafa,

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he has already dedicated decades
of his life to the African football.

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The system of his training centers
shall work without agents and mediators.

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He follows all internatioal
human rights recomendations

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and guidelines
of the protection of the youth.

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The wafa always negotiates
with the clubs on their own

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and comply with the
under-18-regulation,

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that notes that it's not allowed
to sell minor players.

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I've been in Africa for some time now.

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I'm here since 1985

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and earlier I scouted for clubs
and I also worked a bit as an agent.

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Since '85 I have been in kongo,
Senegal and Sierra Leone.

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There is no sponsor-income in Africa.

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Because all the big football-companies, like
Adidas or puma, are rarely interessted.

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They want to sell their Jersey from clubs,
they give money to.

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But the people here, can't affort it.

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The local football clubs are not only
disregarded by the sponsors,

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also the FIFA and other associations
hardly support them.

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For karel brokken these are big stumbling
blocks in the career of big talents from Ghana.

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Most of the teams of Ghana cannot compete
with clubs of other African countries.

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I mean that countries,
in which French is the spoken language.

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If you want to play on an international level, in
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you have to do it on your own expenses.

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For him it's clear where
the support should come from:

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The money should come from FIFA

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or from other big clubs in Europe.

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Many teams don't take part,
because they cannot cover the costs.

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While the European champions league distributes
large amounts of money to the clubs,

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the participants at the African counterpart
have to pay for everything by themselves.

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This includes
the traveling costs,

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the catering and the accomodation
as well as entry fees.

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And this despite the African-wide
broadcast of the matches.

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What would be a big help, is

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the poverty.

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If the poverty could dissipate, that would
be a very good thing for Africa in general

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and for the development of the players.

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Because at the end, it
is all about poverty.

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No matter, whether we look at the football
school created by one's own initiative

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or the football school subsidized
with millions by red-bull:

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They all struggle
with the same issues.

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In the first place are the poverty and the
hardship of the young talents and their families

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and the haggling
as 3 result of that.

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Many people blame the hundreds of scouts,
agents and mediators

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for the suffering
of the numerous kids,

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that fall by the wayside
chasing their big dream.

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We have asked the Africa-
and football-expert Paul nehf about that.

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Searching for football talents in Africa
is very fascinating out of several reasons.

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On the one hand, because you
come across players with a quality,

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whom you would be arguing
about with big consultant agencies here.

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On the other hand because
it's more fun to scout there,

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it's much more fun to watch some
tournament at a crappy football pitch,

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than watching the tit for tat,
the banter of the junior bundesliga.

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Big parts of the reporting in the media are
already covered by the business behind football.

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You start to understand that down there you
really have to focus on the talent of the player

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and cut out all the other circumstances,
that the player is exposed to.

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Africa offers so much potential which is
only used by French and maybe belgish clubs,

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but it think that Germany
is one step back referring to that.

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It's time to move forward, because Africa
is gonna change in the next ten years

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like south America
changed 30 years ago.

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Italy as well

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because they have some loopholes to bring to
their country players earlier, at a younger age.

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These are normally
the first countries.

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To carry such a big responsibility,
which lies on your shoulders

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scouting young adults
and adolescents,

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a special education
is surely needed, right?

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I haven't absolved a special education
to be scout or consultant of players.

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Licenses are fine and dandy, but of course
there are ways to avoid them.

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The people slowly get it.

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It's not normal,

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that people, that haven't anything to do
with football have the power and the money.

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Obviously there are people,
who only have in mind to gain money,

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but sometimes the output is still good, cause
without the ones, who really gain money,

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far less talents would
accomplish to come here.

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Personally I think that's the players who create the
career of their manager and not the other way round

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quite frequently the managers try to get their
playersin famous clubs and promise them a big career.

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But it doesn't work like that.

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What characteristics are needed
to become a player-agent?

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I think additionally
to the expert knowledge

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so that he can give the player useful advices
and help him to really advance athletically

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he should be reliable
and really believe in the player.

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And support him
in difficult times.

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He should not only look after money
but also care for the player.

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I handed over my little brother
to a big agent, I won't name.

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Just beacause he had all these
famous players under contract.

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But he didn't have time for him.

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He put him in a random club and forgot him

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and continued, making millions
out of the big players.

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Listening to the fact, that consultant agencies don't
provide the best results for the young players,

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what about the football schools?

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Are the big academies
the right thing for our gigi?

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There is obviously no advantage
in footballing terms in players

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who are not in one of
the big academies,

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because even if they were
highly talented,

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they would always be better if they trained
under professional conditions.

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The advantage for me as scout
or consultant agent is,

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that the players are
normally easier to pick up.

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Less people's interests
are involved.

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It's easier for the scouts

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which want to bring
the kids to Europe

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to profit from the children.

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That's due to the fact
that life is more difficult there.

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Most of the time we negociate
directly with the clubs.

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And if something doesn't
work, the boy comes back.

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We don't work with agents.

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The interesting thing is, that the guys
are probably not the most talented,

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but they were lucky to get in there,
blundered into it, happened to be discovered

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and the guys on the street
maybe just weren't lucky.

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Just looking at the innate skill Africa is
an endless source of high quality players,

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but the education
is simply different

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and their football playing nowadays
is coined by European football playing.

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It's important for the adolescent African
player to leave Africa as soon as possible

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to train under
professional conditions.

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And an African 17-year-old
is not necessarily a child anymore,

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that has to be protected.

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The boys down there usually leave school
at 12/13 and earn their families living.

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Clubs in Germany have to proof this
consultants, they have to cooperate with them.

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It shouldn't be possible, that consultants
suppose 17-year-old players for a transfer.

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Without their parents.

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How should that work?

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That's not normal.

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If you have no idea of how the business works
you won't know how much money to claim.

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That's the reason why mediation
agents are needed.

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But of course there are bad mediation
agents, that claim too much money,

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that don't look enough after the boy,
especially in bad times.

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So, there are bad mediation agents
here and there either.

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To prevent human trafficking
and children trafficking

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there are rules and laws
and all kinds of institutions,

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but again agents, players and clubs
have different opinions on the topic.

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I think it would be good
if there was an age limit.

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Which age exactly?

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I'm not sure about that,
but 18 years sounds good, I think.

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Because you're seen
as adult by then.

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I think the transfer-age of 18 is not helpful for Africa,
because it doesn't match the reality down there.

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It's a disadvantage for single players, that may
have the potential to switch to another club,

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but get prohibited to do it.

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The protection of the young,
is not adequate.

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A 16-year-old young African football player is
not a child anymore the way we see it in Europe.

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Protection against people
is always relative,

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because protection may be a denial
of a chance in this case and a player,

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that transfers early can aliment
a whole family through generations of time.

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It's always a question
of the perspective.

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From another point of view
maybe they deserve a chance,

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so we have to be careful
speaking of protection.

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A universal age limit for the whole world
is completely disconnected from reality.

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Why is there no scouting on Germany's
streets, like there used to be?

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I think German street football
is dead to be honest,

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that's my personal opinion.

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All the places where I played football
in earlier days are abandoned nowadays

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and the guys down there are real street football
players, like we miss them here in Europe.

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The first guy who went to my trial session
was a young boy from Mali.

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That was in Frankfurt, in January,
so it was extremely cold.

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I saw how he did his first walk
through the woods in Germany.

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It was very fascinating, because the player
naturally wanted to carry it off well

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and we had great difficulties to notice if he was
in fact too cold or if something was missing,

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because he didn't
want to show off.

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He had a good countenance
all the time.

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Actually it's more of a job to the young, the
talented players in Africa, than to those in Europe,

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because they carry
another responsibility.

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They feel not only hope, but they realize the
investments of their families and extended families.

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At the age of 14/15
they notice precisely,

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that for them the only thing that matters
is to become a professional.

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That's the reason why the young players often
play with less enthusiasm, at least it seems so,

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because they suffer under another pressure
and that partly really produces heartache.

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We also notice that European clubs, more
precisely German clubs struggle with Africa

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because they try to apply
their norm, which is nonsense.

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But can't the football schools
and training centers influence

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how much time the guys
have to spend in Africa?

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There are a few academies,
that give you kind of a list with facts

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like the jumping heigth
and running speed of the boy.

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00:29:26,056 --> 00:29:30,220
One time I went with that list to rapid
Vienna and the trainer looked at it

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and began to ask under which circumstances the
boy jumped and under which circumstances he ran.

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For me as a layman it seemed like
they were doing professional work,

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but the guy from rapid Vienna
could just laugh at it.

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If a family has a talented boy it could be the
ticket out of poverty for the whole family,

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maybe the whole kin,
even the whole village

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and this pressure lies heavily
on the boys' shoulders.

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00:29:50,497 --> 00:29:56,868
But as always, there are real people behind
every table, transfer lists and statistics.

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00:29:56,878 --> 00:30:01,747
Some of their fates are so horrible,
that you almost wouldn't believe them

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00:30:01,758 --> 00:30:06,843
other players literally
made it from rags to riches.

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00:30:06,847 --> 00:30:10,681
But the most thrilling stories
offer a little from both extremes.

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00:30:10,684 --> 00:30:17,055
The best example for this is the rise of the
German-African football player Ibrahim tanko.

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00:30:17,065 --> 00:30:21,024
With 16 years,
he came from Africa to Germany

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00:30:21,028 --> 00:30:26,568
and then became the youngest bundesliga
player of history at the age of 17.

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00:30:26,575 --> 00:30:32,366
Even until today, he remains youngest
German football champion

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00:30:32,372 --> 00:30:35,785
the bundesliga has ever seen
with the age of 17 years and 327 days.

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00:30:36,376 --> 00:30:40,164
That's when we became
German champion too.

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At that time, ottmar hitzfeld
was the coach.

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00:30:44,134 --> 00:30:49,504
Then I have formed the so-called
"baby storm" together with Lars ricken

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00:30:49,514 --> 00:30:56,602
we've also played our best six months then,
when we became German football champions

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00:30:56,605 --> 00:30:59,517
after I think 30 years.

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00:30:59,524 --> 00:31:03,938
The so-called "baby storm"
by Lars riecken and Ibrahim tanko

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stomped the whole league.

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He even was in the squad
the following season

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00:31:10,327 --> 00:31:14,036
when the bvb took
the champions-league title.

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00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:18,783
But his performance gradually
went down season after season.

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00:31:18,794 --> 00:31:21,160
There may be many reasons for that

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00:31:21,171 --> 00:31:25,414
but according to Ibrahim himself,
it was the pressure

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00:31:25,425 --> 00:31:29,009
to deliver the highest possible performance that
heavily took it's toll on the underage African.

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00:31:29,012 --> 00:31:33,847
And this, even although the sport
was more innocent at that time.

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At our time, this wasn't the case.
At our time we just played football.

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00:31:44,069 --> 00:31:49,029
However, in the middle of the 90s young
players in the abroad had their own problems

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00:31:49,032 --> 00:31:51,569
without Internet,
Skype or Facebook

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00:31:51,576 --> 00:31:54,534
they struggled to stay
in touch with their families.

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00:31:54,538 --> 00:31:59,532
And even today the transfer of a young player to
foreign countries thousands of kilometres away

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is a heavy burden for them.

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00:32:02,671 --> 00:32:05,959
The young talents are taken away
from their environment

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00:32:05,966 --> 00:32:08,799
and they have to deliver the highest possible
performance under a different climate situation

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a different culture and without the backing
of their family and friends.

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00:32:16,685 --> 00:32:22,351
One does not simply go from Africa to
Europe and immediately feels comfortable.

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The culture is different.

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I also remember, when I went there at the age
of 16, I had to live with a foreign family

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I didn't feel well
with all these strange procedures.

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It was very difficult to me.

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Later on, I started to get used to it.

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I actually think, that during
that time there was a period

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where enemies really overthought
several times if they should take the risk

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00:32:57,559 --> 00:33:00,551
to give a young African player
the chance to play,

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00:33:00,562 --> 00:33:04,851
but I think nowadays it's also a question
of how a club treats this topic.

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00:33:04,941 --> 00:33:12,941
It's all about giving the African players
someone at their side in the new culture

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to help them going to administration institutions
and to advance in terms of integration.

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00:33:19,789 --> 00:33:26,206
At that time, it was really difficult because
there were no mobile phones, like today

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or social media through which
you could always establish contact

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if we wanted to use the telephone,
we had to make an appointment

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then go to the office,
to sit there and talk to our parents.

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00:33:41,686 --> 00:33:49,149
It wasn't as easy as today, where everyone
could talk to everyone at the phone.

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Exactly, our parents didn't have
a telephone either at that time

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where someone had a telephone
and then make an appointment with me.

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00:34:00,455 --> 00:34:03,492
We had to make
an appointment in Germany, too

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00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:07,618
so that we could go to the office
and talk to our parents.

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00:34:09,673 --> 00:34:12,881
The sad ending
of this story at the bvb

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00:34:12,884 --> 00:34:15,751
was the exclusion of the player
because of the marijuana doping-scandal.

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00:34:16,555 --> 00:34:20,764
It happened almost like with the children
that end up on the wrong path

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because their parents
don't really take care of them.

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00:34:24,563 --> 00:34:28,476
Only with the fact, that we are talking
about a 19 year old professional here

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00:34:28,483 --> 00:34:30,849
who should've known better

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00:34:30,860 --> 00:34:34,853
but nevertheless happened
to end up with the wrong people.

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00:34:39,286 --> 00:34:41,527
For the children's success
it is extremely important

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00:34:41,538 --> 00:34:43,449
that they stay close
to their family

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00:34:43,456 --> 00:34:48,621
the closer they are to their family, the higher are
their chances of becoming professional player.

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00:34:53,174 --> 00:34:57,213
Of course, if you're there
as a football player

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00:34:57,220 --> 00:35:01,509
then the guys come to you because they
know that you've become a professional.

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00:35:01,516 --> 00:35:05,225
But in fact, they don't want
to help you at all

401
00:35:05,228 --> 00:35:09,141
they just want your money
and to party with you.

402
00:35:10,108 --> 00:35:13,191
Thank god I wasn't
the kind of guy for that.

403
00:35:13,194 --> 00:35:21,194
But when I made that mistake,
I didn't argue with anybody

404
00:35:21,870 --> 00:35:25,454
I said straight-away
“yes, I did that”

405
00:35:25,457 --> 00:35:30,793
I didn't knew that this
was some sort of doping

406
00:35:30,795 --> 00:35:38,795
as you said,
I didn't really realize that

407
00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:47,389
why should I dope to play football?
Or if somebody smokes marijuana

408
00:35:47,395 --> 00:35:49,101
how should it influence
your performance then?

409
00:35:49,105 --> 00:35:53,144
Not at all. It was a mistake,
I've already said that back then.

410
00:35:53,151 --> 00:35:57,360
Nothing of this
matters to me today.

411
00:35:58,073 --> 00:36:05,195
His lifelong friend and today u17 coach of the
Ghana national team stands up for Ibrahim as well

412
00:36:06,956 --> 00:36:09,538
I know him since he was a little boy.

413
00:36:10,043 --> 00:36:11,908
He never went into those things.

414
00:36:12,253 --> 00:36:17,793
I'm sure it is like you said,
no parental control, no family.

415
00:36:17,801 --> 00:36:21,919
So maybe he fell into some bad company
and then that thing happened.

416
00:36:22,305 --> 00:36:25,342
But I'm sure that thing
belongs to the past.

417
00:36:25,892 --> 00:36:31,853
That's right, because today, Ibrahim tanko
is assistant coach of the national team

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00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:37,067
and prepares young players for the life
in the sport and in the foreign

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00:36:37,070 --> 00:36:39,527
so that they won't
have to repeat his mistakes.

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00:36:40,407 --> 00:36:44,776
But the most beautiful thing about that is,
that he's found peace with his past.

421
00:36:45,495 --> 00:36:50,080
Today, he is proud of his career
and his 2nd home Germany.

422
00:36:50,166 --> 00:36:53,624
Of course Germany
is my second home.

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00:36:54,129 --> 00:36:58,839
My family and I, we all became German
including getting German passports.

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00:36:58,842 --> 00:37:04,803
I enjoy being in Germany
very much and I often travel there.

425
00:37:23,491 --> 00:37:29,612
Like everywhere on the world, the career of a
football player in Africa begins in the youth teams

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00:37:29,622 --> 00:37:32,409
from u17 on it gets really serious.

427
00:37:32,834 --> 00:37:35,746
From then on the FIFA regularly
holds world championships.

428
00:37:35,754 --> 00:37:40,999
The results of these international
competitions are of no importance to the media

429
00:37:41,009 --> 00:37:43,000
although they are quite interesting.

430
00:37:43,970 --> 00:37:48,339
The adult German nationalteam
holds 4 world championship titles.

431
00:37:48,349 --> 00:37:50,260
A fact that is commonly known.

432
00:37:50,769 --> 00:37:55,809
And it's no secret, that Africa
never reached a world championship finals.

433
00:37:56,399 --> 00:38:00,438
But it's exactly the opposite at the
world championship of the u-17 players.

434
00:38:00,904 --> 00:38:06,900
African teams have won 7 times
the world championship of the juniors.

435
00:38:06,910 --> 00:38:09,367
And Germany didn't even win once.

436
00:38:09,829 --> 00:38:11,785
An incredible result.

437
00:38:12,248 --> 00:38:18,619
Why is there such a big chasm
and what makes the africans so strong?

438
00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:22,589
Coach Fabian, who's
training the u17 from Ghana

439
00:38:22,592 --> 00:38:24,799
can give us some answers on that.

440
00:38:30,809 --> 00:38:34,768
Looking at that, the African and the
south American players resemble.

441
00:38:35,688 --> 00:38:39,272
I think it's something,
that is inborn.

442
00:38:40,109 --> 00:38:45,274
You know, in Europe,
they teach boys how to play football.

443
00:38:45,824 --> 00:38:49,567
But here it's something natural,
it comes naturally.

444
00:38:52,539 --> 00:38:57,408
At this level you got a whole lot of agents
coming to talk sweet thing to the boys

445
00:38:57,418 --> 00:38:59,875
by promising them everything.

446
00:39:01,464 --> 00:39:08,632
Some of the players who come from very poor families,
only see the money and do everything, they are told to.

447
00:39:08,638 --> 00:39:10,674
They don't finish developing.

448
00:39:12,392 --> 00:39:17,432
You know, you have to get your development to
a certain level, before you can go to Europe.

449
00:39:18,147 --> 00:39:24,438
It's not easy to go as a 16-year-old, 17-year-old
boy to go to Europe and play on a top level.

450
00:39:27,198 --> 00:39:32,158
But like I said, I think there should be
laws to govern this kind of scouting.

451
00:39:32,161 --> 00:39:37,827
You just can't come and scout a 15-year-old,
or 14-year-old and take him to Europe.

452
00:39:38,501 --> 00:39:41,538
They could scout and watch them
here in the clubs.

453
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,872
And when the boys are 18,
they can take them.

454
00:39:50,972 --> 00:39:53,759
Coach Fabian's opinion
is absolutely clear:

455
00:39:53,766 --> 00:39:59,056
Young players should only be transferred out
of their home after reaching their legal age.

456
00:39:59,063 --> 00:40:01,554
But not everyone
shares his opinion

457
00:40:01,566 --> 00:40:06,856
because no matter, if it's the families
that wish a career abroad for their kids

458
00:40:06,863 --> 00:40:11,527
the clubs, the managers
or the players themselves

459
00:40:11,534 --> 00:40:17,279
for many within coach Fabian's team it's never
too soon to go to the top clubs in Europe.

460
00:40:21,502 --> 00:40:26,121
I try as much as possible to get my talents
out of Ghana as soon as possible.

461
00:40:27,467 --> 00:40:35,135
I can tell you for these two boys, I have had over 75
agents contacting me, wanting to sign with the boys.

462
00:40:36,225 --> 00:40:41,185
Yartey is the manager of a couple
of top talents in the u17 national team.

463
00:40:41,898 --> 00:40:46,062
His pupils not only scored
important goals at tournaments

464
00:40:46,069 --> 00:40:48,811
but they were also
awarded with trophies

465
00:40:48,821 --> 00:40:52,530
such as man of the match
or man of the tournament at the Africa cup.

466
00:40:53,242 --> 00:40:58,111
These kids, most of the time also footballers
of the second or the third generation

467
00:40:58,122 --> 00:41:01,114
are the future
of the African football

468
00:41:03,586 --> 00:41:07,295
from my father's side, he has two brothers,
they are both footballers.

469
00:41:11,135 --> 00:41:14,753
One is playing in Dubai
and one is playing in America.

470
00:41:15,473 --> 00:41:17,885
So, I am the third one, I'm coming up.

471
00:41:22,563 --> 00:41:30,563
I want to play in the highest level like playing in a
team like real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester united.

472
00:41:34,367 --> 00:41:35,698
Okay, do you know something?

473
00:41:35,910 --> 00:41:40,153
I eat football, I drink
football, I do football.

474
00:41:40,164 --> 00:41:44,999
So, nothing else, only schooling.

475
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:57,304
Africa has a lot of talent, raw
talent, very good talents.

476
00:41:57,306 --> 00:42:01,470
And that is why, we are actually winning
a lot of youth championships.

477
00:42:03,104 --> 00:42:08,189
But when it comes to the world cup, the
senior national team, we are not winning,

478
00:42:08,192 --> 00:42:15,985
because we lack much facilities as compared to those of the
developed countries, like Germany, France, england, us.

479
00:42:22,165 --> 00:42:28,161
2007 Germany took the third place
at the u17, Ghana was fourth.

480
00:42:28,171 --> 00:42:35,668
Now the guy, that won the top-award, as in the best player
of the tournament, Christopher macauley from Nigeria,

481
00:42:35,678 --> 00:42:41,639
and then the second-best player was ransford osei of
Ghana, and then the third was Toni kroos of Germany.

482
00:42:42,769 --> 00:42:48,309
But now Toni is playing for real Madrid, he won the
champions league, he won the world cup before,

483
00:42:48,941 --> 00:42:54,732
but ransford osei is still in Ghana here,
struggling to even get a team to play.

484
00:42:57,909 --> 00:43:00,195
I am sorry to say this,
but that is the fact.

485
00:43:00,661 --> 00:43:04,950
It is because Toni kroos after the u17 was
graduated into the u20 of the German national team

486
00:43:04,957 --> 00:43:08,825
and he had better facilities
at bayern Munich.

487
00:43:12,340 --> 00:43:17,084
According to this opinion, it would be better
for the players if they trained at hoffenheim

488
00:43:17,095 --> 00:43:25,095
freiburg, dortmund or Munich as soon as possible.
But why is the coach so strictly against that then?

489
00:43:28,022 --> 00:43:34,814
That's what I was saying, that if we can have a policy
that we can keep them here until they are 18, 19,

490
00:43:34,821 --> 00:43:39,690
when they are old enough to sign a professional
contract, it would be better for all of us.

491
00:43:41,119 --> 00:43:44,611
They go outside and play, because
they are paid well in their country.

492
00:43:45,081 --> 00:43:50,201
If we could get companies to promote
the guys here and pay them well,

493
00:43:50,211 --> 00:43:54,875
we could keep most of the boys here, develop
them well, before they go to Europe.

494
00:43:56,843 --> 00:43:58,708
So, these agents -

495
00:43:59,220 --> 00:44:04,715
I know some boys, some very good players,
who were taken to Europe by some agents

496
00:44:04,725 --> 00:44:11,813
and once they got to the airport, the guy
went and they didn't see the guy again.

497
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,688
They had to sleep in the
airport and were brought back.

498
00:44:16,028 --> 00:44:19,566
When something like this happens to a
child, all his dreams will be shuttered.

499
00:44:19,574 --> 00:44:21,656
They cannot play football again.

500
00:44:22,451 --> 00:44:27,491
So, as I said, if we are able to find a way
to keep them here for some time,

501
00:44:27,498 --> 00:44:30,740
untill they are old enough to make
decisions, I think it would be better.

502
00:44:38,843 --> 00:44:41,505
Unfortunately, this aren't singular cases.

503
00:44:41,512 --> 00:44:45,221
Adolescents are adopted
by strangers from Europe

504
00:44:45,224 --> 00:44:48,716
conned off their parents' money

505
00:44:48,728 --> 00:44:50,684
and worse

506
00:44:50,688 --> 00:44:55,398
shipped to Europe illegally
to sell them to the local clubs.

507
00:44:56,027 --> 00:45:01,021
These schemes unfortunately overshadow
the success stories, which of course exist

508
00:45:01,032 --> 00:45:04,445
because taking
an adolescent from the poverty

509
00:45:04,452 --> 00:45:09,287
giving them the chance of a career in a premier
club, including a salary of millions of Euros

510
00:45:09,290 --> 00:45:15,502
is the big dream of any consultant and of any
player, who lives here in Africa's poverty.

511
00:45:16,672 --> 00:45:21,132
This dream came true many times,
like in the case of Christian atsu.

512
00:45:21,594 --> 00:45:24,757
He nowadays earns his money
at new castle united.

513
00:45:24,764 --> 00:45:30,885
He also escaped the poverty with his transfer,
long before he reached the legal age.

514
00:45:32,939 --> 00:45:37,603
I am the manager of Christian atsu,
he played in my club cheetah fc.

515
00:45:38,236 --> 00:45:45,233
When we got atsu before he got 18,
we send him to Portugal, to fc porto.

516
00:45:45,826 --> 00:45:48,989
From then on he continued to develop.

517
00:45:50,957 --> 00:45:57,874
It all boils down to creating good policies and good
laws that will protect our boys from these agents.

518
00:45:58,422 --> 00:46:02,290
Most of the agents are not good,
they only want the money.

519
00:46:03,552 --> 00:46:07,090
I don't think, they only take andvantage
of African players.

520
00:46:07,098 --> 00:46:10,511
Asian and south-American, too.

521
00:46:11,185 --> 00:46:14,222
There should be a universal law
that takes care of it.

522
00:46:14,981 --> 00:46:16,937
We know, how to play the game.

523
00:46:16,941 --> 00:46:20,229
But we don't have the facilities like you.

524
00:46:20,444 --> 00:46:26,110
As soon as we have these,
we will beat you in the world cup.

525
00:46:27,535 --> 00:46:32,245
But somehow Africa
won a world title.

526
00:46:32,248 --> 00:46:37,743
World cup winner France has
a majority of African players.

527
00:46:37,753 --> 00:46:41,712
Players of the first,
second and third generation.

528
00:46:50,474 --> 00:46:51,964
You need to mind not to think

529
00:46:51,976 --> 00:46:55,685
that the people in Africa think differently
from the people in Europe

530
00:46:55,688 --> 00:46:56,768
it's totally understandable

531
00:46:56,772 --> 00:47:00,981
given that some parents of French
national player are born in Africa.

532
00:47:00,985 --> 00:47:03,692
And because of that, it is normal
that African people think

533
00:47:03,696 --> 00:47:06,403
that the French player
represent them indirectly.

534
00:47:07,116 --> 00:47:10,074
I think that a few player
come from Guinea.

535
00:47:10,077 --> 00:47:14,787
Therefore I perceive it as normal that Guinean
people are happy about the French victory.

536
00:47:14,790 --> 00:47:19,454
When I had played in the national team, the
guadeloupean people where really proud of me.

537
00:47:28,554 --> 00:47:33,218
I think, it is the same if a player
is from Brittany or the alsace.

538
00:47:33,225 --> 00:47:36,012
Then the local resident
are also pretty proud

539
00:47:36,270 --> 00:47:37,350
the national team

540
00:47:37,355 --> 00:47:40,392
often consists of poorer social states
or rather that are the children

541
00:47:40,399 --> 00:47:43,311
of the latest migration wave.

542
00:47:48,157 --> 00:47:54,153
Nowadays many people wonder why so many with
African roots are part of the national team

543
00:47:54,163 --> 00:47:58,122
because there are so many
black people in the team.

544
00:47:58,125 --> 00:48:02,084
This is due to the fact that the last
migration wave came from black Africa

545
00:48:02,088 --> 00:48:05,376
and the French national team tells
the story of those migration waves.

546
00:48:10,096 --> 00:48:14,055
France had colonized
many African countries.

547
00:48:14,058 --> 00:48:18,677
That's why it's normal, if someone form
a French speaking area emigrates to France

548
00:48:18,687 --> 00:48:22,100
not only because of
the extremely colourful population.

549
00:48:35,746 --> 00:48:38,863
The world cup winner from France
are all French people

550
00:48:38,874 --> 00:48:41,331
no matter what skin colour or origin.

551
00:48:41,335 --> 00:48:45,874
That shows us again that we
not only live in a global world

552
00:48:45,881 --> 00:48:49,373
but also that there are a lot
possibilities for integration.

553
00:48:49,385 --> 00:48:55,301
Is there a responsability towards
his homecountry, his fathers father?

554
00:48:55,307 --> 00:48:59,641
How do players of the first, second
or third generation in Europe see it?

555
00:49:03,190 --> 00:49:05,727
I know that my ancestors
came from Africa

556
00:49:05,734 --> 00:49:08,976
and got abducted to Guadeloupe
so they could be turned into slaves

557
00:49:08,988 --> 00:49:11,104
that was an incision
in my family tree.

558
00:49:11,907 --> 00:49:14,614
I know that and I think
it is really important

559
00:49:14,618 --> 00:49:17,576
that everybody knows
their own family story.

560
00:49:17,580 --> 00:49:21,323
For this reason
I feel like an African.

561
00:49:21,333 --> 00:49:22,743
Football has
the power to legitimate

562
00:49:22,751 --> 00:49:24,787
that we can respect each other

563
00:49:24,795 --> 00:49:27,332
doesn't matter what skin colour
and religion we have.

564
00:49:32,136 --> 00:49:35,469
James kwesi appiah,
coach of the national team in Ghana

565
00:49:35,473 --> 00:49:39,216
believes to have recognized
the signs of the time.

566
00:49:40,269 --> 00:49:44,262
When we talked to him, he showed us his
strong believe that the African football

567
00:49:44,273 --> 00:49:49,734
can only be helped by training the players
in their original environment.

568
00:49:50,654 --> 00:49:53,361
The new coach has brought
something totally different.

569
00:49:53,365 --> 00:50:01,365
Now he says, if you are a local player and play very well,
you play in the black stars, and so that's the ultimate.

570
00:50:02,541 --> 00:50:05,908
You'd still get an opportunity
here, to develop.

571
00:50:10,549 --> 00:50:18,549
I think that, you know, first of all Ghanaian thought that:
"Look, we've tried foreign coaches for so many years"

572
00:50:19,475 --> 00:50:22,262
and it's like, always they come
and you don't see much difference.

573
00:50:23,020 --> 00:50:25,807
So, it was time to try.

574
00:50:26,315 --> 00:50:31,059
Okay, let's give our own the chance
and see what he can do.

575
00:50:31,487 --> 00:50:37,653
So fortunately, I was able to qualify the team to
the cup of nations and we got to the semi-finals.

576
00:50:38,786 --> 00:50:41,402
I have two u17-teams.

577
00:50:41,413 --> 00:50:44,246
The kids of both teams stay at my house.

578
00:50:44,583 --> 00:50:47,620
Thats the best way to care for them.

579
00:50:49,171 --> 00:50:55,713
You keep them with you, you give them food,
clothes and you teach them how to play football.

580
00:51:00,224 --> 00:51:07,312
Actually, you know, at the national team level,
since I came, like two or three months ago,

581
00:51:07,314 --> 00:51:15,314
I've created a data, where you can put all
Ghanaians playing in Europe, America or wherever.

582
00:51:17,700 --> 00:51:22,319
I try to put them on my data,
so I can monitor all of them.

583
00:51:23,581 --> 00:51:25,412
Time has come for change.

584
00:51:25,416 --> 00:51:28,533
I wan't to be able to pursue
every player of all age.

585
00:51:30,129 --> 00:51:33,246
My plan is to strengthen
football in Africa.

586
00:51:33,591 --> 00:51:35,547
Therefore the database.

587
00:51:36,176 --> 00:51:38,838
It is even for the upcoming trainers.

588
00:51:42,391 --> 00:51:45,975
And of course as a good coach
he has an answer

589
00:51:45,978 --> 00:51:51,939
to the question why African players
are such great talents.

590
00:51:56,322 --> 00:52:04,320
And one thing, it's not only me but Ghanaians
believe that, when it comes to talents,

591
00:52:04,330 --> 00:52:06,537
Ghanaians are born with
it in terms of football.

592
00:52:07,625 --> 00:52:11,618
When a Ghanaian just kicks a ball,
you see some skill in them.

593
00:52:12,212 --> 00:52:16,956
In terms of child-transfers, coach appiah
shares the same opinion as his counterpart

594
00:52:16,967 --> 00:52:18,673
in the u17 trainer Fabian.

595
00:52:18,677 --> 00:52:23,637
He wants to strengthen the national league
and provide better conditions,

596
00:52:23,641 --> 00:52:28,010
here in Africa, instead of selling
the talents early on.

597
00:52:30,356 --> 00:52:34,224
For many players the nationalteam
is a kind of foreplay before the big,

598
00:52:34,234 --> 00:52:36,475
international football clubs.

599
00:52:37,655 --> 00:52:41,819
The young talents can present themselves
here and show how good they are.

600
00:52:41,825 --> 00:52:44,737
With the goal, to raise their going rate

601
00:52:44,745 --> 00:52:47,361
and to recommend
themselves for Europe.

602
00:52:48,082 --> 00:52:50,073
One thing's for sure.

603
00:52:50,084 --> 00:52:53,872
Every young player,
who plays football here, is dreaming

604
00:52:53,879 --> 00:52:56,495
to go to Europe and
to play football there.

605
00:52:56,882 --> 00:53:04,095
They should start joining these European
clubs before they turn 18 to develop.

606
00:53:04,682 --> 00:53:08,140
That is a handicap for them,
the top talents.

607
00:53:08,143 --> 00:53:12,682
They can only be transferred
at the age of 18, that's too late.

608
00:53:12,690 --> 00:53:15,807
Of couse there is also
a problem with child trafficing,

609
00:53:15,818 --> 00:53:19,527
that's also a thing.
But the top-talents suffer from that,

610
00:53:19,530 --> 00:53:21,361
and can't unfold
their full potential.

611
00:53:21,699 --> 00:53:24,190
That is a double-edged sword.

612
00:53:24,827 --> 00:53:27,239
On the one hand
the kids need to be protected

613
00:53:27,246 --> 00:53:30,534
and on the other hand their talents
need to be supported to the optimum.

614
00:53:31,250 --> 00:53:33,912
Are more strict rules
and prohibitions helping?

615
00:53:33,919 --> 00:53:39,789
Are they a blessing for the children or rather
a disadvantage in the worldwide competition?

616
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:42,257
You can't forbid something here.

617
00:53:42,261 --> 00:53:44,627
Otherwise the parent come and say:

618
00:53:44,638 --> 00:53:48,631
"Hey, we don't have anything here.
No infrastructure, nothing.

619
00:53:48,642 --> 00:53:52,976
What are the boys supposed to do?
You can't forbid my boy to go somewhere."

620
00:53:52,980 --> 00:53:57,440
Take for example the u17,
which played recently.

621
00:53:57,776 --> 00:54:02,736
They're now getting many offers
from Europe for sure.

622
00:54:02,740 --> 00:54:08,576
And as a club or an association
you can't do an interdiction on that.

623
00:54:08,579 --> 00:54:12,618
If you do,
you'll get a problem with the parents.

624
00:54:18,172 --> 00:54:20,788
If you take a look
at the professional side

625
00:54:20,799 --> 00:54:23,085
I think that there are
in countries like France

626
00:54:23,093 --> 00:54:25,755
structures which follow
a really strict framework

627
00:54:25,763 --> 00:54:30,177
in order to bring the young children
up to a professional level.

628
00:54:35,606 --> 00:54:39,098
What happens if child trafficking
is forbidden furthermore?

629
00:54:39,777 --> 00:54:41,768
If violations
are punished harder?

630
00:54:42,404 --> 00:54:47,819
And if the clubs are strictly prohibited
to transfer kids under contract?

631
00:54:47,826 --> 00:54:51,239
That's what we've asked
sport journalist senyuiedzorm

632
00:54:51,246 --> 00:54:53,703
who accompanied
players around the world.

633
00:54:55,501 --> 00:54:57,366
You know what these agents do?

634
00:54:57,586 --> 00:55:00,419
They just go round the clubs
and visit the parents.

635
00:55:00,422 --> 00:55:08,422
As I already told you, 99% of the players don't come from
an, you know what I mean, financially secured environment.

636
00:55:09,765 --> 00:55:13,553
Don't the kids lose
their fun at playing?

637
00:55:13,852 --> 00:55:21,520
Yes, I think this gets lost on the way.
Now it's all just about money.

638
00:55:21,527 --> 00:55:26,612
A long time ago, you enjoyed playing
football, even if there wasn't any money.

639
00:55:26,615 --> 00:55:30,449
But nowadays this isn't the case.
And why is that?

640
00:55:30,452 --> 00:55:34,741
It's because the players, the young players
watch the European clubs too,

641
00:55:34,748 --> 00:55:39,333
they hear about who buys them
and who sells them.

642
00:55:40,212 --> 00:55:45,832
That is the reason why any player,
if you ask them about their dream,

643
00:55:45,843 --> 00:55:49,677
they'll immediately answer with earning
money in Europe and helping the family.

644
00:55:51,223 --> 00:55:57,093
The fun part of football has vanished and now everbody
just cares about how they can profit from it.

645
00:55:57,104 --> 00:55:59,891
When I played back then, we had nothing.

646
00:55:59,898 --> 00:56:01,809
We only played out of passion.

647
00:56:02,276 --> 00:56:05,609
I remember the times I was
playing in the national team.

648
00:56:05,612 --> 00:56:09,776
I was in the national team for 11 years
and we didn't look after money.

649
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,863
We were only proud of
being representatives of the nation.

650
00:56:14,746 --> 00:56:21,117
I can remember, when I was playing football for
kotoko, I had a team in Italy from Torino.

651
00:56:21,128 --> 00:56:23,414
They came down
and wanted me to go.

652
00:56:23,422 --> 00:56:28,633
I said: "No no no, I'm happy I'm playing here,
why do I need to go and travel out there?"

653
00:56:29,094 --> 00:56:34,680
But time has changed and
you know, we all need to move on.

654
00:56:36,602 --> 00:56:40,345
400 players have a deal
with euroclubs.

655
00:56:40,355 --> 00:56:45,941
Many of them never left their homeland
before, some not even their village.

656
00:56:45,944 --> 00:56:50,608
How do these players feel when they're
suddenly so far from their home?

657
00:56:52,159 --> 00:56:53,490
That's Africa.

658
00:56:53,702 --> 00:56:56,364
In Africa you don't get what you want.

659
00:56:57,289 --> 00:57:05,289
I want to play in Barcelona or Madrid, because whenever
I see messi or Ronaldo, I know that's my goal.

660
00:57:07,674 --> 00:57:11,087
Just by talking about it,
my legs go like this.

661
00:57:11,303 --> 00:57:14,420
If you see this, you know I love football.

662
00:57:15,849 --> 00:57:18,340
I went with the national team to Russia.

663
00:57:18,352 --> 00:57:23,437
And from Russia I didn't went back to
Ghana, so I travelled directly to Austria.

664
00:57:29,780 --> 00:57:35,616
You know, the first day in Vienna wasn't easy for
me, because I lived my whole life in Africa.

665
00:57:36,411 --> 00:57:39,403
So this change was not easy.

666
00:57:41,959 --> 00:57:46,293
On the first day I meet an old friend,
which once was here in Africa.

667
00:57:46,588 --> 00:57:51,378
He is a Nigerian player, he's called laren
kayode, if you ever heard that name.

668
00:57:54,513 --> 00:57:56,219
He's a really good player.

669
00:57:56,556 --> 00:58:01,050
As I saw him, he said: "Oh
my African brother is here".

670
00:58:01,561 --> 00:58:04,268
He stayed always on my side, you know.

671
00:58:04,731 --> 00:58:09,191
And we're always together
and he showed me everything in Austria.

672
00:58:12,698 --> 00:58:15,030
But I tell you something funny.

673
00:58:15,033 --> 00:58:18,901
I was there and I've never seen
so many white people before.

674
00:58:19,621 --> 00:58:25,912
I was in Cologne
on the carnival.

675
00:58:25,919 --> 00:58:30,538
I went from the airport in Frankfurt
straight to the carnival.

676
00:58:30,924 --> 00:58:33,961
You can imagine that this
was really funny.

677
00:58:33,969 --> 00:58:38,383
Only many white people with fat stomachs,
much beer and so on.

678
00:58:39,891 --> 00:58:40,971
"Come have a drink, buddy!”

679
00:58:41,476 --> 00:58:42,511
What is going on here?

680
00:58:46,314 --> 00:58:48,225
It really was hilarious.

681
00:58:49,109 --> 00:58:51,225
Suddenly I was in another country.

682
00:58:51,528 --> 00:58:53,814
I knew, that I was
in another country in Germany.

683
00:58:53,822 --> 00:58:56,188
But I've never seen so many
white people in my life,

684
00:58:57,409 --> 00:59:00,742
so many fat people
with fat stomachs.

685
00:59:02,289 --> 00:59:03,324
But fun aside.

686
00:59:10,255 --> 00:59:11,995
That wasn't easy.

687
00:59:13,300 --> 00:59:17,760
When I went there,
I had a whole week trouble eating.

688
00:59:19,848 --> 00:59:24,217
You know, they gave me food,
which I never eaten before.

689
00:59:24,936 --> 00:59:26,517
It was not easy.

690
00:59:27,314 --> 00:59:30,647
And also their system is not easy.

691
00:59:31,485 --> 00:59:38,197
The coach always told me: "Mo, wait.
Wait and you will be accustom to it."

692
00:59:39,534 --> 00:59:44,244
Many African player have to reckon
with many more prejudices

693
00:59:44,247 --> 00:59:46,033
if they want to play in Europe.

694
00:59:46,750 --> 00:59:50,242
One of the most fatal prejudice is,
that they lie about their age

695
00:59:50,879 --> 00:59:53,746
to provide themselves an unfair advantage
over other junior teams.

696
00:59:54,549 --> 00:59:59,088
Such an age question emerged for example
in the case of youssoufa moukoko

697
00:59:59,179 --> 01:00:00,179
in borussia dortmund.

698
01:00:00,972 --> 01:00:02,758
His age was stated
with 12 years.

699
01:00:04,476 --> 01:00:06,091
But experts question it already.

700
01:00:06,103 --> 01:00:07,138
Who believes this?

701
01:00:07,145 --> 01:00:09,477
I always have to estimate the age.

702
01:00:09,856 --> 01:00:11,721
But for me he is at least 16.

703
01:00:12,150 --> 01:00:14,892
Why players cheat
with their age is clear.

704
01:00:15,195 --> 01:00:18,608
Performance advantages
in the u-teams are a reason.

705
01:00:18,615 --> 01:00:24,030
On the other side, some make themselves
older so they can earlier transfer legally.

706
01:00:24,037 --> 01:00:26,403
But many children
don't do this on purpose.

707
01:00:26,414 --> 01:00:29,201
In Africa there's a different
handling with births.

708
01:00:29,209 --> 01:00:32,997
And the celebration of birthdays
isn't that usual as it is in Europe.

709
01:00:33,839 --> 01:00:37,502
To lie about the age of the players
is a systematic setback.

710
01:00:40,512 --> 01:00:41,877
You have to pay for everything

711
01:00:41,888 --> 01:00:46,006
even for a childbirth and many just
don't have the money for that.

712
01:00:46,017 --> 01:00:47,052
There are births at home as well.

713
01:00:47,060 --> 01:00:52,555
Therefore you can't expect
every childbirth to be reported of course.

714
01:00:52,566 --> 01:00:56,980
The age of the African players, who I get
to know there, isn't right normally.

715
01:00:56,987 --> 01:01:02,527
The first thing is,
if nothing else crosses your mind:

716
01:01:02,534 --> 01:01:09,656
The u17 of Niger told the president that
they just don't want to get mired in lies.

717
01:01:09,666 --> 01:01:12,373
And they don't know what the birthday is
and go for first of January.

718
01:01:12,377 --> 01:01:13,537
Which is somehow honest again.

719
01:01:13,545 --> 01:01:20,758
I also had played 2005 the u20 wm, Nigeria
came there extremely far, reached the final.

720
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:23,502
Then against Argentina,
against messi, then lost.

721
01:01:23,513 --> 01:01:30,430
There were, I guess 9 from about
something like 23 squad places first first.

722
01:01:32,147 --> 01:01:34,308
There are basically two cases:

723
01:01:34,316 --> 01:01:38,605
Either they assert to have
an age and stay with that

724
01:01:38,612 --> 01:01:41,274
and the players themselves
don't care about that.

725
01:01:41,281 --> 01:01:46,492
They don't say much, because everything's always
about the club, the presidential, the trainer etc.

726
01:01:46,494 --> 01:01:50,533
Or there are a few others
that just say:

727
01:01:50,540 --> 01:01:53,373
Make the boy as old
as you want to,

728
01:01:53,376 --> 01:01:55,617
I have experienced this too,

729
01:01:55,629 --> 01:02:00,419
being on the pitch arguing about if the
player should be 16/17 or 18 years old.

730
01:02:01,092 --> 01:02:04,004
Passport controls alone aren't enough
for the FIFA any more.

731
01:02:04,387 --> 01:02:10,132
The age of players is tested with a carpus-test
before the u17-world championship.

732
01:02:10,143 --> 01:02:13,260
Countless players
have since then be suspended,

733
01:02:13,271 --> 01:02:16,513
because this test determines
the age with a relatively high precision.

734
01:02:18,109 --> 01:02:20,225
Since at least
the case of Tony yeboah,

735
01:02:20,237 --> 01:02:25,357
who admitted 2010 at our visit, that he made
himself 2 years older then and owns 2 passports,

736
01:02:25,367 --> 01:02:27,278
are doubts allowed.

737
01:02:27,953 --> 01:02:32,743
What may be unproblematic
for an aspiring amateur athlete

738
01:02:32,749 --> 01:02:36,492
can mean the immediate end
of a career in professional football.

739
01:02:36,503 --> 01:02:38,118
Moukoko suffers from it.

740
01:02:38,129 --> 01:02:42,793
That's not his fault.
Even if his age wasn't right.

741
01:02:43,593 --> 01:02:48,007
Our little gigi's passport also says
he's born on the 1st of January.

742
01:02:48,598 --> 01:02:52,716
This date alone evokes
many discussions around the sceptics.

743
01:02:54,604 --> 01:03:00,315
Another topic, about which the young players
don't spend a thought in their training camps,

744
01:03:00,318 --> 01:03:02,229
is another perspective.

745
01:03:02,946 --> 01:03:06,438
What do the people think in their
guest countries about the transfers?

746
01:03:07,033 --> 01:03:11,026
What do German players
and their fans of the local clubs

747
01:03:11,037 --> 01:03:13,323
say about the African new entrants?

748
01:03:15,417 --> 01:03:22,835
If you go down the leagues
in Germany thank god you see,

749
01:03:22,841 --> 01:03:25,674
that in the first and second league
there is someone who surveilles a bit

750
01:03:25,677 --> 01:03:27,008
and from time to time notices:

751
01:03:27,012 --> 01:03:28,047
What are you doing there?

752
01:03:28,054 --> 01:03:32,844
But the more you go down the leagues,
the more it gets a relevant topic.

753
01:03:35,353 --> 01:03:39,517
In general it's a difficult path,
because so many people play football

754
01:03:39,524 --> 01:03:44,063
and only a certain percentage can play
in the second and third league.

755
01:03:44,070 --> 01:03:52,070
It was hard for me of course
and sadly I grew up with racism,

756
01:03:53,663 --> 01:03:56,200
which was much worse
back then, than now.

757
01:03:56,207 --> 01:04:02,373
Also on the field people threw bananas
on me and so on.

758
01:04:02,380 --> 01:04:07,545
It was difficult yeah, but it coined me
in a way and hardened me.

759
01:04:09,471 --> 01:04:12,759
I made myself clear, that
I'm in a different country.

760
01:04:13,767 --> 01:04:17,555
So whatever happens, I
don't let me get down.

761
01:04:20,523 --> 01:04:27,110
Sometimes we went to places, where people would
throw bananas or something like that after us.

762
01:04:31,368 --> 01:04:38,706
Well I definitely think it has it's source in the
fan-culture. Inside the clubs it's no issue.

763
01:04:38,708 --> 01:04:41,950
When I was young,
I didn't know what slaves were.

764
01:04:41,961 --> 01:04:43,576
But I read about it.

765
01:04:44,047 --> 01:04:46,413
What happens here
is almost the same.

766
01:04:46,424 --> 01:04:49,666
I honestly have to say
that I was very lucky,

767
01:04:49,677 --> 01:04:57,677
though I had to listen to a lot and I think that in
the last one or two years the racism has grown again.

768
01:05:03,566 --> 01:05:06,603
Yes, you know, in Europe racism is present.

769
01:05:06,945 --> 01:05:08,856
But not everyone is a racist.

770
01:05:11,074 --> 01:05:16,910
Sometimes you notice,
how people talk or laugh at you.

771
01:05:19,624 --> 01:05:24,664
That is because people weren't used to
black africans who went to Europe before.

772
01:05:25,088 --> 01:05:28,751
We weren't that much
so you can tell how it is.

773
01:05:29,217 --> 01:05:32,675
Also on the playground
there's racism from time to time.

774
01:05:32,846 --> 01:05:36,714
That's why FIFA and the federal division and
also all media, that are resident in Germany

775
01:05:36,724 --> 01:05:38,385
act out a zero-tolerance polity.

776
01:05:38,810 --> 01:05:42,723
Most players from Africa can
report about about unpleasant accusations.

777
01:05:42,730 --> 01:05:46,097
These reach from misunderstandings
up to defamations,

778
01:05:46,109 --> 01:05:48,896
which full
fill the elements of an offence.

779
01:05:48,903 --> 01:05:53,317
Even prince opoku knows about
an incident during an Europe -club game,

780
01:05:53,324 --> 01:05:56,612
where the confrontation between cultural different
players caused a unsportsmanlike combat.

781
01:05:56,619 --> 01:06:01,140
Where the confrontation between cultural different
players caused a unsportsmanlike combat.

782
01:06:02,333 --> 01:06:04,039
That was the uefa-cup.

783
01:06:04,335 --> 01:06:08,078
It was the first day,
on which I got into something.

784
01:06:10,967 --> 01:06:14,960
He was moving around and I chased him,
I only wanted to frustrate him.

785
01:06:15,388 --> 01:06:17,845
So I decided to step on his toe.

786
01:06:17,849 --> 01:06:22,013
He felt the pain and said first:
"Be careful, my friend"

787
01:06:22,020 --> 01:06:24,261
and I answered: "I'm sorry".

788
01:06:26,566 --> 01:06:32,232
Later I came again, stepped on him
and he replied: "You black monkey!"

789
01:06:32,238 --> 01:06:36,698
And I warned him: "I'm going to
show you what a black ape can do."

790
01:06:37,452 --> 01:06:43,368
So I started to kick him untill the
referee came and gave me the yellow card.

791
01:06:44,292 --> 01:06:48,126
From official aspects, there is a lot
of energy and money dedicated

792
01:06:48,129 --> 01:06:52,748
against the racism on the playground,
but also especially between the fans.

793
01:06:52,759 --> 01:06:53,794
Banner advertisement,

794
01:06:53,801 --> 01:06:54,836
advertisement trailers

795
01:06:54,844 --> 01:06:58,587
and fan campaigns fight
against racism and prejudices.

796
01:06:58,598 --> 01:07:02,056
But just like a lot of other things in our
society, we're not even close to the end.

797
01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:03,595
Staying together.

798
01:07:03,603 --> 01:07:11,603
We have to change these things, because,
I don't want to name this word, slaves.

799
01:07:12,403 --> 01:07:13,609
Slave trade.

800
01:07:13,613 --> 01:07:15,695
Yes, that is how it looks.

801
01:07:15,698 --> 01:07:20,567
It is over,
you don't use this word any more.

802
01:07:20,578 --> 01:07:21,784
That how it was back then.

803
01:07:21,788 --> 01:07:25,372
Now they don't want to
use this word any more.

804
01:07:26,209 --> 01:07:27,745
But as you can see, it is.

805
01:07:27,752 --> 01:07:28,992
How is that possible?

806
01:07:29,003 --> 01:07:31,039
The country had developed
real good, I guess.

807
01:07:31,047 --> 01:07:33,959
If I imagine how it was
20-30 years ago.

808
01:07:33,967 --> 01:07:41,967
I also think it's really really great, if young
Germans with a migration background, choose Germany.

809
01:07:42,141 --> 01:07:44,132
Really really good, because it simply
helps very very much.

810
01:07:44,143 --> 01:07:48,352
I don't think, that players who come now,
are scared of racism.

811
01:07:48,356 --> 01:07:50,062
It's going to be blend anyway.

812
01:07:50,066 --> 01:07:54,935
In 100 years it's going to be
really hard to tell:

813
01:07:54,946 --> 01:07:58,234
I'm pure Ghanaian or I'm a pure German.

814
01:07:58,241 --> 01:08:04,453
In this respect this question won't be asked some
day and if you're black or white and soon is...

815
01:08:04,455 --> 01:08:05,490
I don't care!

816
01:08:06,332 --> 01:08:11,747
But the thing that is just as serious in the world
of professional football as racism is corruption.

817
01:08:12,171 --> 01:08:17,336
Especially in African countries this
problem seems to be more distinctive.

818
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:20,046
That counts of course not
solely for football

819
01:08:20,054 --> 01:08:22,636
but here it stands out
again and again.

820
01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:23,675
Players strikes,

821
01:08:26,102 --> 01:08:29,686
stadiums which have been subsidized,
but will never be build.

822
01:08:30,648 --> 01:08:33,685
We had inquired worldwide interview
partners about this topic,

823
01:08:33,693 --> 01:08:36,605
but only got rejections.

824
01:08:38,239 --> 01:08:41,606
Not only corruption lets the already
approved funds from the FIFA,

825
01:08:41,618 --> 01:08:45,031
the sponsors or from
the country itself vanish again.

826
01:08:45,955 --> 01:08:49,789
The African football club
has a general financial problem.

827
01:08:50,793 --> 01:08:53,876
That is immediately shown through
the fields and training equipment,

828
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:58,624
behind the backdrop the problems range from
the coaches salaries to the players salaries.

829
01:08:59,052 --> 01:09:03,512
Here in Europe we have
weekly salaries up to 250.000 euro.

830
01:09:04,098 --> 01:09:06,885
Ghana shows another image.

831
01:09:10,897 --> 01:09:13,104
You can see how the clubs suffer.

832
01:09:14,067 --> 01:09:18,561
They pay a player 100 Euros
a month for example.

833
01:09:20,281 --> 01:09:22,067
Could you imagine this?

834
01:09:22,075 --> 01:09:25,238
Maybe 100 Euros for a pro-player?

835
01:09:33,252 --> 01:09:34,992
That is unbelievable for us.

836
01:09:35,546 --> 01:09:38,583
But how should be acted
against this condition?

837
01:09:39,300 --> 01:09:41,006
The world isn't fair, isn't it?

838
01:09:41,219 --> 01:09:46,964
One thing we small people can do is,
at least to make sure rules exist.

839
01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:52,264
Since we're talking about football, the
government should make their part of the work

840
01:09:52,271 --> 01:09:56,014
because the countries
decided to join the FIFA.

841
01:09:59,445 --> 01:10:07,445
I think FIFA, as a global lawgiver of the football, knows
what's best compared to the government, regarding football.

842
01:10:09,580 --> 01:10:12,162
Yes, FIFA should release a few good rules.

843
01:10:12,166 --> 01:10:18,878
So that if they catch someone, like they
did a few years ago with Barcelona,

844
01:10:18,881 --> 01:10:21,463
clubs cannot make deals
with players for two years.

845
01:10:21,467 --> 01:10:26,552
Like athlético Madrid, which cannot make
two year deals with players.

846
01:10:26,556 --> 01:10:27,887
That can help.

847
01:10:27,890 --> 01:10:29,801
They should care about such things.

848
01:10:30,059 --> 01:10:36,430
As we can see, people who suffer under the corruption,
can't agree on how to take action against it.

849
01:10:36,899 --> 01:10:40,938
Whether the state or the FIFA
should define and enforce the rules.

850
01:10:41,738 --> 01:10:46,277
But one thing is sure, the actual
situation is not longer manageable.

851
01:10:46,743 --> 01:10:54,743
The players striked. We went to brasil one
day later than planned because of money.

852
01:10:54,792 --> 01:11:00,583
Said strike by ghanas national team
in 2014 wasn't an isolated case

853
01:11:00,590 --> 01:11:07,052
and showed how far
the corruption problems had spread.

854
01:11:08,139 --> 01:11:11,882
The media had discussed
this incident accordingly detailed,

855
01:11:11,893 --> 01:11:15,977
because the teams decision
was like a last cry for help.

856
01:11:17,106 --> 01:11:22,191
If not even the money from official
approved funds reach the players,

857
01:11:22,195 --> 01:11:27,485
you want to know what happens to this money
and where it landed at the end.

858
01:11:29,035 --> 01:11:33,620
I think the money goes to some few
individuals and that is really sad.

859
01:11:33,623 --> 01:11:40,165
That's also the bitter truth,
that the players know:

860
01:11:40,254 --> 01:11:45,465
"If we don't fight
and take our money, it's over."

861
01:11:45,885 --> 01:11:49,002
Yes, the money went
into the wrong direction.

862
01:11:52,558 --> 01:11:56,517
That is our problem, not only in Ghana,
it's like that in Africa.

863
01:11:58,189 --> 01:12:03,934
The leaders on the top know, why it doesn't flow
on the ground to help the development of football.

864
01:12:06,322 --> 01:12:11,237
The players know: If they don't take
their money, then the officials take it.

865
01:12:11,244 --> 01:12:16,784
Yes, the money is approved, given that,
the players should have their portion.

866
01:12:20,294 --> 01:12:25,459
If I had the opportunity to talk to the
FIFA, I would probably offer them:

867
01:12:26,092 --> 01:12:31,382
Let the clubs dispute directly with each other
or let the parents represent the children,

868
01:12:31,389 --> 01:12:33,095
if it comes to negotiations.

869
01:12:33,307 --> 01:12:38,847
That would lead to the loss of a
third instance, for example an agent

870
01:12:38,855 --> 01:12:44,851
which shows up and enslaves the players
and only uses them to make his own money.

871
01:12:45,486 --> 01:12:50,822
This grievances can't be solved
by football clubs or the FIFA.

872
01:12:50,825 --> 01:12:56,786
But there are already some projects
in Europe that link football to charity.

873
01:12:57,248 --> 01:13:05,248
Education is important,
the treaty can be made in english.

874
01:13:06,090 --> 01:13:09,378
If you don't go to school,
you cannot read.

875
01:13:09,385 --> 01:13:11,842
So the first step is education.

876
01:13:11,846 --> 01:13:14,212
The problem lies not within football,

877
01:13:14,223 --> 01:13:16,930
but it's a problem in society.

878
01:13:17,476 --> 01:13:20,639
The problem is,

879
01:13:20,646 --> 01:13:27,518
that we're wealthy in Europe
and in other countries they're not

880
01:13:27,528 --> 01:13:29,268
and the others
shall not come here.

881
01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:32,943
Everybody wants to get their slice of the
part and with football it's exactly the same.

882
01:13:32,950 --> 01:13:40,950
I think it's fundamental,
what the trainer said too,

883
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:47,371
to fight the causes and to achieve
equal circumstances in other countries.

884
01:13:47,381 --> 01:13:50,839
So they should take you out
of those countries while you're young.

885
01:13:54,055 --> 01:13:56,797
More should be done for the youth.

886
01:14:01,729 --> 01:14:06,473
There are no leagues
between the ages of 10 and 13.

887
01:14:11,822 --> 01:14:16,942
There is no development
because there is no money for that.

888
01:14:22,041 --> 01:14:28,662
No team in Ghana, in general in Africa,
can feed the young teams.

889
01:14:33,636 --> 01:14:41,179
And boys who can't compare themselves,
are not able to develop as in Europe.

890
01:14:43,437 --> 01:14:51,437
The program of the right dream giveback
is a program where the students,

891
01:14:52,863 --> 01:14:59,029
as well as the former students
invest in their home-villages,

892
01:14:59,036 --> 01:15:01,743
where they build Wells
and give them something back.

893
01:15:02,331 --> 01:15:06,244
Of course there are lots of solutions out
of the football sports and it's environment

894
01:15:06,252 --> 01:15:08,208
that are supposed
to help Africa.

895
01:15:08,963 --> 01:15:11,830
Does Africa indeed need our help?

896
01:15:11,841 --> 01:15:14,833
Yes, but not only
to promote football players

897
01:15:14,844 --> 01:15:18,803
but espacially dealing
with equality and human rights.

898
01:15:19,515 --> 01:15:23,849
I think that there is a lot
to make good for especially by the FIFA,

899
01:15:23,853 --> 01:15:30,850
that has a certain responsibility there
and has to meet it.

900
01:15:30,860 --> 01:15:32,600
I think exactly such projects,

901
01:15:32,611 --> 01:15:39,733
that can mature to guides for self-aid are
the best and can support the development,

902
01:15:39,744 --> 01:15:43,987
so that football can do
exactly that: Develop.

903
01:15:44,331 --> 01:15:51,169
Innovative ideas and great advises from the rest
of the world reach Africa in their thousands.

904
01:15:51,172 --> 01:15:53,663
There are already billions of Euros,

905
01:15:53,674 --> 01:15:59,089
that are invested into the black continent
to fight the well-known local grievances.

906
01:15:59,096 --> 01:16:03,260
But our little gigi
doesn't notice nothing of it.

907
01:16:04,060 --> 01:16:05,095
He has nothing.

908
01:16:05,102 --> 01:16:07,718
Nothing but a dream.

909
01:16:08,481 --> 01:16:15,193
The dream to free his mother, his sisters
and himself from the incredible poverty.

910
01:16:16,238 --> 01:16:19,526
In a country, where
possibilities are scarce,

911
01:16:19,533 --> 01:16:23,776
he has to brace himself against corruption,
human trafficking

912
01:16:23,788 --> 01:16:29,909
and thousands of other talented young boys,
that also have nothing but football.

913
01:16:31,045 --> 01:16:33,411
On our journey we were lucky
to accompany him

914
01:16:33,422 --> 01:16:39,668
and we hope that he
and his country get a better future.

915
01:16:46,102 --> 01:16:51,438
This travel to a foreign continent has given
us deep insights in a foreign culture,

916
01:16:51,440 --> 01:16:54,603
in other conventions
and customs.

917
01:16:54,610 --> 01:16:57,773
Football bounds people.

918
01:16:57,780 --> 01:17:03,616
It should not only be seen as a means to
cash up but first and foremost as a medium,

919
01:17:03,702 --> 01:17:09,163
that without words, without speech
can connect the whole world.

920
01:17:11,544 --> 01:17:16,584
Sometimes everything you need is a ball
and a smile to find new friends.

921
01:17:17,591 --> 01:17:22,005
A world together
is our big dream.