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Chasing Football's Conmen

 


Young football hopefuls in Nigeria.
It's every young African footballers dream to play for an English premiership club.

But an undercover BBC investigation has exposed how many young African players are being defrauded by conmen posing as talent scouts from the big clubs.
For Assignment the BBC goes undercover in search of the fraudsters. Gavin Lee reports from Nigeria.

First broadcast in July 2008

 

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