Underage African footballers 'trafficked' to Laos

Despite specific rules banning the transfer of underage footballers, the BBC has found evidence of African boys as young as 14 being trafficked to Asia.

The sport's world governing body Fifa forbids the movement of players to foreign clubs until they reach 18, but one NGO estimates that about 15,000 teenage players are moved out of Africa every year - many of them illegally.

The BBC's Piers Edwards reports from Liberia.

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