Mission 89 is proud to share that, for the first time ever, the US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report has included information about sports trafficking, greatly increasing public exposure of the problem and laying the groundwork for...
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This article is a collaboration between Mission 89 and the European Football Agents Association (EFAA) as part of a football summer transfer window campaign. In 2009, Michael Afolabi Sodeke became a player’s agent and since then he has been...
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On June 9th, Mission ‘89 and Istanbul Bilgi University, jointly hosted a virtual round table that discussed “the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and restrictions imposed on the lives of migrant footballers in Istanbul”. The round table...
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Moving from muddy pitches back home to play under the bright lights of La Liga, Serie A, Premier League or Champions League is a dream shared by many aspiring footballers around the world. In Nigeria, it is the wish of many young players who...
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In the second part of our interview with photographer Jason Andrew on his “Black Diamonds” project, he reveals some of the personal struggles the players went through and the complex nature of the international movement of young players –...
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Photographer Jason Andrew grew up in California, USA, and taught at an elementary school for four years before studying photography. He has since been published in Time, the Financial Times, the New Yorker, and the British Journal of Photography...
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It is a story replicated at alarmingly high rates in Africa and Europe: upcoming footballers, mostly in their teens, are lured to Europe under the guise of a career in the continent’s top football leagues. Many of these teens and their families...
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