{"id":81682,"date":"2025-11-26T20:26:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81682"},"modified":"2025-11-26T20:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:26:43","slug":"they-killed-my-only-son-the-young-west-african-footballers-scammed-by-fake-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/26\/they-killed-my-only-son-the-young-west-african-footballers-scammed-by-fake-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They killed my only son\u2019: the young west African footballers scammed by fake agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1RbzA2.img?w=534&amp;h=380&amp;m=6&amp;x=365&amp;y=182&amp;s=122&amp;d=122\" alt=\"Cheikh Tour\u00e9, a promising young goalkeeper, was just 18 when he was found dead in October. Photograph: TikTok\/@kheusch51\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The last time Diodo Sokhna spoke to her teenage son, he seemed subdued, his voice sapped of all the optimism he had set off with on a journey supposed to put him on the road to a career\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/they-killed-my-only-son-the-young-west-african-footballers-scammed-by-fake-agents\/ar-AA1RbzA9?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=3527349cdd5e4d0c95a3a99ae4f9d775&amp;ei=18\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The last time Diodo Sokhna spoke to her teenage son, he seemed subdued, his voice sapped of all the optimism he had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/football.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81683,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81682\/revisions\/81683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}