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Soccer players aren’t traded from one team to another. They’re bought. Sold by one club to another. It’s one of many differences between soccer and, say, baseball. That, and the fact that you actually have to be fit and athletic to play soccer.
The way they buy and sell players like animals – it reminds me of slavery. Except for the multi-million dollar salaries the players are paid after they’ve been bought. That, and the fact that they get to play a sport in Europe instead of plant sugar in Alabama.
Still, it makes me wonder: are African players sensitive to this kind of buying and selling of human beings? This buying and selling of human beings who so often come from exploited parts of the world? This buying and selling of human beings by really rich white people from the West? Does it trigger resentment?
No. Super no on top of no times ten.
When wealthy white people from Europe started talking about buying and selling Arsenal striker and Togolese national Emmanuel Adebayor, unlike his predecessors two hundred years ago, he was pleased. Amazing what a few million pounds in wages will do to somebody’s outlook.
When asked about the rumors that AC Milan was interested in buying him, he said: “It is like a boy, handsome or not, if they tell you Beyoncé is looking for you, you must be happy, that is for sure.”
Is it wrong for me to have an image in my head of Foxy Cleopatra, standing in thigh high black leather boots and a black leather corset and thong with nothing else except a whip? I knew I should have pursued a career in soccer.
How Emmanuel Adebayor sees AC Milan. Sa-freakin-weet!!
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