Former Huddersfield Town player Efe Sodje and his famous sporting family have been "shamed" for milking a charity set up for poor African children.
The footballer and his brothers Stephen Sodje, 43, and ex-rugby player Bright Sodje, 52, were found guilty and jailed for taking the cash from the family charity, the Sodje Sports Foundation (SSF).
A fraud trial had heard how the Sodjes set up their charity in 2009 to help provide sporting facilities to youngsters in Nigeria.
Ashley Carson, a businessman and director of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club, and one of the city's MPs, Clive Betts, were recruited to give the charity respectability - but when they asked for bank statements and financial reports, they were fobbed off.
Once the pair resigned as trustees and directors in 2013, "the amount of money being transferred to the Sodje family increased dramatically", prosecutor Julian Christopher QC said.
The SSF held a charity football match at Sheffield Wednesday's grounds in 2009, and arranged a fundraising dinner at Charlton Football Club in September 2010.
In 2011, there was a gala dinner at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester for the SSF and the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital - a charity supported by England women's football coach Phil Neville.
The event raised almost £11,500, but Mr Christopher said: "Not a penny went to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital."
He sentenced Stephen Sodje, of Bexley, to two years and six months in prison, saying he lied repeatedly to the jury and was a "self-regarding and arrogant man with a strong sense of self-entitlement".
His lawyer Kieran Galvin said the conviction was "shattering" and a "massive fall from grace" for the defendant, who now worked as a carer and has two young step-daughters.
Father-of-one Efe Sodje, who was "the face" of the charity, was given 18 months in jail, having received around £7,500 plus an unknown amount of cash from the clay pigeon shoot.
Bright Sodje, of Sale, Greater Manchester, was jailed for 21 months for his part in "milking the charity".
The judge said: "All three of these defendants in various ways exploited their own and their families' reputation, not only for the benefit of the poor children of the Niger valley but also for their own benefit.
"In this case, the defendants were all well known and respected men, particularly in the world of football and sport both here and in Africa.
"One (Efe) had the honour of playing for his country in the World Cup finals.
"I have no doubt to some extent at least it was that form of respect that made it possible or more likely that their fans and admirers would make donations to the charity that had been formed by them in their name."
He said "at least £63,000 has been shown to have been received by the fund", but added it was important to note that did not include cash donations, and the defendants "went out of their way" to ensure that proper records were not kept.
National Crime Agency deputy director Chris Farrimond said: "Bright, Efe and Stephen Sodje promoted themselves as generous, community-minded figures when they were knowingly defrauding people who thought they were helping deprived children in Nigeria.
"NCA financial investigators built a detailed picture of the movement of money in and out of the foundation and showed beyond doubt that for most of the foundation's existence there was no charitable purpose."
The brothers' convictions in 2017 can only now be reported at the conclusion of a separate money laundering case involving Efe and ex-Premiership star Sam Sodje, 39, who was cleared over the fraud.