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It is a terrible waste what happens to Brazilian soccer players that are "exported" in droves every year.

The impression one gets is that a very minute minority has been properly trained on the possible problems related to living in other cultures. For instance, almost none of them learn to speak a foreign language well - English would be a starting point. Unfortunately, soccer agents are only interested on money, and that is what they throw at kids and their parents, when they still play in minor leagues. This earns the parents' trust, and the rest becomes history.

Thus, when the young players arrive overseas they are generally ill prepared to face team's politics, go through interviews, communicate at the most basic level. All they seem to do well is going to nightclubs, spending loads of money thoughtlessly and live the life.

The end result is tragic. Careers throughly wasted, magnificent players sitting on the bench for months on end. It seems that players who got better support from their families or agents, such as Kaka and Diego, fare better, while others succumb to alcoholism, depression and sex addiction.

Who knows, maybe somebody will think of creating academies that will prepare our young soccer players for overseas careers.