{
  "id": 2344650,
  "title": "End of a Dream: Young Footballers Paid Thousands for False Hope in Alicante",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/end-of-a-dream-young-footballers-paid-thousands-for-false-hope-in",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-21T08:36:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Leader",
    "slug": "the-leader",
    "url": "https://theleader.info/2026/08/21/end-of-a-dream-young-footballers-paid-thousands-for-false-hope-in-alicante/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Young Venezuelan footballers and their families allegedly paid as much as €3,000 each for the chance to travel to Alicante and pursue their dream of playing professional football in Spain. Instead, their hopes ended at a hotel in Benidorm and at the centre of a National Police investigation into an alleged criminal organisation linked to […] The post End of a Dream: Young Footballers Paid…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}