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New report examines threats to the integrity of sport

14 June 2010

The Examination of Threats to the Integrity of Sports was commissioned by the EU Sports Platform and has been launched in European Parliament. The report, elaborated by Danish research institute Oxford Research, outlines the key...[more]




Europe is draining Africa of football talent

19 May 2010

Extensive research into trafficking of young African players reveal that major European clubs systematically use loopholes in the regulation to recruit youth players from the African continent, leaving up to 20,000 former...[more]




Review of Den Forsvunne Diamanten (The Lost Diamond)

01 December 2008

Greedy agents, bungling with contracts, allegations of kidnapping and threats of life: all ingredients in a drama from real life, in the middle of which stands the now 21 year old Nigerian football player John Obi Mikel. He is...[more]




Plight of Nigerian footballer highlights player-trafficking in Pakistan

06 March 2008

The trafficking of football players from Africa is often wrongly regarded as a solely European phenomenon. As Pakistani journalist Shazad Ali of DAWN newspaper shows, trafficking is an issue in South Asia as well.[more]




Prevention programme proposed to stop football trafficking

28 June 2007

Each year many school-age African boys come to Europe because they believe they have a contract with a professional football club. Unfortunately, the majority have been set up by false agents and end up in the streets as illegal...[more]




WADA releases new Donati-report on trafficking of doping substances

26 March 2007

A new doping study by anti-doping expert Sandro Donati estimates that 31 million people are involved in doping worldwide. The trafficking of performance-enhancing drugs poses a danger to society not only because of its links to...[more]




Danish football club reported to FIFA for trafficking of young players

23 February 2007

FIFPro - the international organisation for professional football players - has reported a Danish football club to FIFA and accused it of trafficking of young football players from Nigeria. FIFPro also attacks the Danish Football...[more]




Soccer dreams and reality

11 July 2006

PARIS. Far from the festive atmosphere of the World Cup, the race for cheap muscle and talent in Europe's lucrative soccer industry has created yet another wrinkle in the immigration debate: Every year thousands of school- age...[more]




WADA consults with Donati on drugs trafficking

03 February 2006

WADA is preparing itself for taking stronger measures in the fight against drugs trafficking. Following Sandro Donati’s presentation on drugs trafficking at the Play the Game conference in November 2005, WADA decided to invite...[more]




Sandro Donati issues appeal to world governing bodies

09 November 2005

Italian anti-doping fighter and Head of Research at the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) Sandro Donati returned to the Play the Game with a strong appeal to global regulatory bodies and law enforcement agencies to recognise the...[more]




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