Role of sports in politics

[Magicalking]

I think the motive behind the football sanctions is to cause internal conflict in Russia. The ban of Russian athletes will make the people angry at Putin and he will lose face before his subordinates. The war may continue for longer than we think. China is increasing their military spending by 7%. China and Russia have similar interest tho China has not spoken on the Russian-Ukriane war.

[Maestro75]

The war pulled FIFA out from its hiding and double standard, hypocrisy and lies. It shows that FIFA is never neutral in every decisions it takes. You said you did not interfere in political matters except football but you ban a country in war because you taking side with Ukraine. I like the war for testing FIFA. This will give countries the boldness of challenging FIFA on political interference within countries and their soccer bodies the next time that comes up.

[fiulpro]

The reason so many authorities are banning Russians and not letting them compete is so that :
People raise their Voice
A government is formed by it's people and everyone knows that Putin is loosing ground, lot of people are already on the streets of Moscow but everyone is trying to get the influential people out in the open since they hold power, not just over more people in Russia itself but also some of them have strong political ties. It's not a valid point that sports people do not have political ties, they actually do! Sports are an essential part of any country like Russia. Even the Chess which Russians are so proud of have taken a step back. This will go on till the war stops, but it's definitely not really a great idea to make people suffer in the middle of all this.

[jossiel]

We truly want peace and not war.

That's what these sports organizations or clubs have seen to be the way for Russia to stop. I think after they ban and stop their participation to their events.

If, Russia stops the invasion and decided to have a truce, they will eventually going to lift the ban.

[hyudien]

Sports is a vehicle for peace, unity and reconciliation. Sports can have that effect on the world. Sports regulatory bodies have always insisted that sports and polictics are distinct things and should not be mixed together. They now come out and do the opposite of what they have said. It's understandable that war is a unique situation.
So when these sports bodies direct their sanctions on Russia directly it is understandable but when they focus on the individuals who have little or no role to play in the policy decision of their government. These individuals are not politicians. They have no role for them to be collateral damage in this affair is unfair. Most of these players being ostracize for a crime they did not commit other than owning a passport.

That is what should be applied now by FIFA. But unfortunately, the realization of FIFA's independence has been infiltrated by political elements. I also think that sanctions will be unfair to Russian players, especially in sports, which is something we already know that taking sides has disturbed the stability of FIFA itself. If there is a mixture of politics and sports, it is possible that FIFA law enforcement has shown inconsistency in applying the rules.

[zidanw]

Sports can be a bridge to create opportunities to enable every individual to tap into the upbringing of team building and leadership endeavors. That being said, sports can bring influence and be an agent of so called socio-political change and development. Through sports, equality, inclusion, teamwork, sportsmanship and human values are being upheld, but not when FIFA have made a decisions that seems to be unfair to Russian teams because of political conflicts happening. As they say, everything is not inherently political but almost anything could be made political when freedom or restrictions are being dictated.

[Cling18]

Sports could unite countries in one league but the fact is, it couldn't stop the war. Unfortunately, even athletes are now affected by what's happening to Russia and Ukraine. I hope that sports could fix political issues but currently, political issues are now breaking the unity in sports which affects innocent players. I hope that they would not involve sports in their political conflict because athletes deserve peace.

[Ebede]

what you say is true but the reality is that sports have been interfered with by politics. The latest news is that China, who has been supporting Russia for a long time, is back again with their support, they have banned all broadcasts of Premier League matches this week, when sports are interfered with by politics there I feel concerned, why does their ego make people affected, people need entertainment and sport is one of them!

No organization that doesn't have politics even for religious kingdom their is politics, is not for sports alone that is practicing the way of politics, i can say government kinds of dirt policies is affecting every were you feel is good, don't think what you see this time in sports is perfect

[STT]

Israeli clubs as a result of the Israeli attack on Palestine

You are right this is controversial but also that Palestine is not recognized as a sovereign state and Ukraine is.   Ukraine was promised support when they gave up nuclear weapons for the good of the world overall and they received little but appeasement to a bullying larger neighbor.   At one point Israel occupied Egypt or 'invaded' if you like but they also withdrew from that area, many sympathize with their position where as nobody outside of his payroll believes Putin saying he is a liberator it is only bullying by a thug.
  This is not the first time, USA withdrew from the Olympics of 1980 I think it was because Russia had then invaded Afghanistan.  Again it was thought very dangerous they may continue to occupy other countries also, quite a few parallels there as they never gained any advantage by their actions.   Its not really a one off though many will disagree with the point of view and of course some people do support dictators because they benefit in doing so, it must seem very unfair.

[Newlifebtc]

The fans today in the Manchester derby has shown their support for Ukraine, demonstrating that they simply don't want war.
In hard times like this sports has been there always, during the racist abuse if Floyd, they all showed the signs on their jerseys and supported black's.
Sports is everything a game of love.

[rby]

There’s a good reason why sports exist, unfortunately it is being used in politics and honestly, there are so much politics on most of the sports especially in my country where athletes are being treated no fairly. Sports is a place where every country can showcase their talents, this is an event where you can find unity and peace, its just that many still want to take advantage of this.

There is politics in anything you do even in your religion or your family. Without politics things will not favoir some people. Poeple will always want politics to have their ways. Anywhere there is business or business interest there is politics. If you remove politics from football it will not be interesting again. Politics is a game and let those that knows how to play it play it well. But too much of everything is good.

[Techkoy407]

Sports is a vehicle for peace, unity and reconciliation. Sports can have that effect on the world. Sports regulatory bodies have always insisted that sports and polictics are distinct things and should not be mixed together. They now come out and do the opposite of what they have said. It's understandable that war is a unique situation.
So when these sports bodies direct their sanctions on Russia directly it is understandable but when they focus on the individuals who have little or no role to play in the policy decision of their government. These individuals are not politicians. They have no role for them to be collateral damage in this affair is unfair. Most of these players being ostracize for a crime they did not commit other than owning a passport.

Remember Lewis Hamilton had a difficult time pushing his campaign against racism and discrimination because they claim he had political coalition to it.  Players in the NBA were ostracize for taking the knee during the national anthem. Where was this kind of attention when Mesut Ozil protest against the persecution of Uighur Muslims. His own football Arsenal distanced themselves from the situation.  When  it comes to racism, sports regulatory bodies are strict not to involve in politics. If we go down that this path. I hope that going forward every "aggressor" will find himself where Russia is. I hope in the future sports bodies can remain consistent in the condemnation of things like discrimination, racism, and unprovoked aggression.

Sports can be used for many things. So far only one option has been explored! We want peace not war

Basically, exercise is useful for physical and spiritual fitness.
can also compete
but if in it there are still fanatics or racism, they forget what the purpose of sport is,

sport could unite, if only racism didn't exist,
maybe now it's starting to decrease.

[Lordhermes]

Politics and sports are interrelated, politics connects people together from different tribes. It's built on relationship just like sports that unite different race together. In sports people from every tribes in the world team up together to achieve a common goal.just as it's in politics. Sports unite politicians, through supporting same club or team. At times you see politicians that are not in good working relationship end up supporting the same club and watch their matches together. That's the beauty of sports. For example  the case of Ogoni a tribe in Nigeria, where Nigeria Government in 1995 killed an environmental activist through judicial suide, Nigeria was denied to participate in the Commonwealth games in 1995. That's one role sports play in politics, it's checkmate and correct the character of the political class. Some political leaders withdraw their inimical policy because of fear of their Nations not to participate in some sports activities.

Just like the case of Russia and Ukraine, Russia National team has been denied the ticket to participate in the Qatar world cup, because of their invasion in Ukraine.  They're many instances where sports play vital roles in politics of nations.

Sports has done more good to world peace and harmony than any other organisations.

[Naficopa]

Politics have role in all the matters of that country either its sports or any tournament or any other thing, politics will effect them.  Although it is said that politics unite people so is sports but its not true, sports bring people together of different nationalities, colors but politics is like a game or drama that people adopt for their benefit and their personal motives.