There is no gain saying the fact that sports and all it entails is a money-spinner. In our contemporary society, few parents would whip their wards for showing uncommon aptitude for any of the litany of sports that exist in our time.
Today, the prevailing fad of yore where parents descended on their child (ren) who play either football, table tennis, badminton, volleyball and the likes has long panned into oblivion. There have been instances where some parents have had to persuade and encourage any of their children to embrace sports vis-à-vis his area of expertise. Parents of such child (ren) who take to any sports of their choice are given all the support there is for them to make the needed headway in their chosen field of endeavour.
Even families who fall within the low income bracket suddenly cough out cash to finance the growth of their ward(s). They dig deep and go any length to see that their ward(s) excel in life. In a desperate bid to have their ward(s) succeed in the game, some of them have taken up the mantle of being both the managers and agents of their sports-loving kids ostensibly to keep them away from the prying eyes of shylock agents who have overtime put the future of many budding talents in jeopardy through the dubious and fraudulent deals they enter into with their so-called foreign clubs.
