A friend of mine is in the business, most of those guys that are being exported are really young, 16-19 years old.
Where she works they actually own a big house, have the offices downstairs and they house the players upstairs. She said it could be easily made into a reality TV series...
She sells these guys to clubs in the UK, France, Spain, and now they have her going to Canada since Toronto and Montreal are starting up the Soccer league again there.
For the kids, it's a life-changing opportunity. Sure there's a lot of people making money off of it, but for a lot of these kids futbol is their big shot at a career, and if it falls through what are they going to do? We're not talking about kids with a lot of education and other options. So for the players, I think it's great.
Sure the guys at the top are making loads of money off of it, but that's like anything in sport -- events like the Olympics and World Cup are not about the sport, not about the fans, they're about the money. It's always about the money.
