Corruption and Sports

[romero121]

In my country every government during the election campaign have the statement we'll abolish corruption on the sports in the manifesto. Is this is common or I'm seeing this on my country. In each and every game, during the selection process bribe is being given. This has made several able sportsmen discontinue their passion on sports and do some routine job for their living.

Same as this is the gambling, more key players are involved with match fixing even after getting huge sum of money after every match winning/losing. Why certain sportsmen have such greed towards money when people are starving to have a single meal on a day.

[danherbias07]

It might be their solution for a faster way of retirement.
Making money out of sports is limited. When you are not that strong anymore (old) they will kick you out.
Injuries is also a problem. Accidents can happen anytime.

What happens afterward if you don't find anything to make money?  A job. Companies with age requirements and will try to avoid old applicants.
This is just one of the reason I can think of.
There may be more.

[Russlenat]

It's happening in sports, that's why we hear the words "rigged" , because sports can be rigged so majority of the bettors will lose. As a gambler, I think we should be aware of that so we would know where to bet, some sports are not too obvious but it's happening inside.

[Becky666]

As long as the human race continues corruption won't stop to exist within the humans circle. You talked about your country, what about my dear country; were corruption has eaten-up the whole sport Ministry, there has not be a single election done by the said Ministry that wasn't compromised IMO. My country has some top footballers-Boxers-Wristlers, i mean sport men and women around the world but few stay behind to associate with the government becasue of internal corruption.

As i said earlier, corruption won't stop to exist within the humans circle especially in sports and politics.

[yazher]

It's happening in sports, that's why we hear the words "rigged" , because sports can be rigged so majority of the bettors will lose. As a gambler, I think we should be aware of that so we would know where to bet, some sports are not too obvious but it's happening inside.

Most of this is happening in boxing where we don't really know how it works and sometimes it is not obvious. we will just see one day that the fight was fixed by hearing it from the fighters who fought in the ring. you can see the example with this fight and they agreed the fight was indeed fixed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smHkN2ZpFWo

[mirakal]

Corruption is everywhere even in sports, even if the government will intervene, there are still greedy people who will commit a crime to serve their personal interest. Sports fixing brings big money to fixers, that's why they will not stop if they will not get caught, this is not new, not only in our country but it's all over the world as the world game fixing is happening in every country.

[livingfree]

That's very common.

And that's a promise for the whole country including sports commissions and other sectors of the government. That's where the government officials are good during the elections.

To give false hopes and promises to their constituents.

[ethereumhunter]

It is hard to eradicate corruption because if that is already rooted in a deep, it needs more years to do and needs a long time and clean officers who will solve the problem. We do not know why the sportsmen do that, and maybe it is because the money offered to them is big, so they tempt to accept the offers without thinking much about the risk. I think it happens in many countries, and as long as the clean officers do not have power and back up from the clean government, the corruption will still happen.

[iamsheikhadil]

This isn't common in my country. Cricket is religiously worshipped here and is the common topic in every household. And we all know that there are some fixing stuffs in every sport, but as well as there is a huge passion as well. The answer to these are human greed which knows no bounds. But you will never see legendary players taking money for any sport like Ronaldo or Messi because they have built a tremendous reputation which will be talked for centuries which they can never afford to lose by taking bribes for matches!

[crzy]

Politicians will always do politics everywhere and of course, they'll use sports to their advantage. We also have a serious problem on our Sports agency where being played by the politics over the past decades and until now. Athletes are suffering because of them and some good athletes was not able to compete because of no funds at all, knowing the corrupt officials it will be hard to have a good sports agency on our country, this is why we didn't experience to participate on Olympics. 

[AicecreaME]

In my country every government during the election campaign have the statement we'll abolish corruption on the sports in the manifesto. Is this is common or I'm seeing this on my country. In each and every game, during the selection process bribe is being given. This has made several able sportsmen discontinue their passion on sports and do some routine job for their living.

Same as this is the gambling, more key players are involved with match fixing even after getting huge sum of money after every match winning/losing. Why certain sportsmen have such greed towards money when people are starving to have a single meal on a day.

People nowadays preferred money over the true essence of sports when you're playing it with all of your heart. But since money is the reason why they are playing sports, they are now accepting rigged matches. Actually this is a give and take, for example: Person A, B, and C, and then there's team 1 and 2. Person A would bet on team 1 having the victory, Person A talked to B to let his team lose the game so Person C would lose his bet since he bet in team 1 because they are way more better than team 2.

I hope this does make sense.

[Oceat]

It's happening in sports, that's why we hear the words "rigged" , because sports can be rigged so majority of the bettors will lose. As a gambler, I think we should be aware of that so we would know where to bet, some sports are not too obvious but it's happening inside.

Most of this is happening in boxing where we don't really know how it works and sometimes it is not obvious. we will just see one day that the fight was fixed by hearing it from the fighters who fought in the ring. you can see the example with this fight and they agreed the fight was indeed fixed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smHkN2ZpFWo

I can't really tell if most of it happens in boxing because a lot of sports can be rigged too especially if there's a huge money on the line. So every kind of sports we know is a subject/suspect of being a rigged sports. I've seen some of this happening in boxing, basketball, football, etc. You name all of it that has a huge money on the line and even in esports rigged gameis still happening that's why we have to be fully aware of it.

Although if a certain team/player(s) is found guilty doing the fixed match there's a heavy punishment for that though that would cause them a bad record on their entire life. But still they really did gamble too to play even if they knew there's a higher chance they would get caught.

[DeathAngel]

I’m a keen PL fan, I have noticed very strange decisions since VAR was introduced. Before VAR you could excuse referees as they maybe miss something. I thought VAR would be great but all it’s done is highlight either how corrupt or utterly useless they are at their job. Match fixing would not surprise me one bit in the PL.

[Cling18]

As long as there is money involved, no one could end corruption. Politicians will always make promises that they can't keep just to gain sympathy and support from their people. It has been happening for years and I guess, even the government couldn't control sports completely but they will always be involved in corruption.

[kryptqnick]

I don't bet on local sports and I indeed have no trust in our matches. My country ranks very high when it comes to corruption, and there's definitely a strong possibility of fixed matches. But when it comes to top teams and leagues, I sort of trust that they're not rigged and that people are playing genuinely. But perhaps it's also naive of me to assume that at some level these issues don't exist, I don't know. Then again, I think that in case of fixed matches, some people would come out and talk about it because humans are not great at keeping secrets, especially if telling others can boost their popularity. So maybe it's not so abundant in sports.

[2double0]

I don't think that any government can bring their involvement in sports because they are too busy creating new ways of making money from all sectors in their country. Sports corruption will not end till the greed of persons from roots till ends gets over, whether they belong from the sports industry or government.

[chaser15]

Same as this is the gambling, more key players are involved with match fixing even after getting huge sum of money after every match winning/losing. Why certain sportsmen have such greed towards money when people are starving to have a single meal on a day.

I don't see that kind of situation today. Can you name those more key players involving in fixed matches?

Maybe on some small leagues or not heavily regulated but in big leagues, it's not the actual situation.

It was a game fixed wherein players aren't involved in most cases but the officials instead.

[Jemzx00]

It's happening in sports, that's why we hear the words "rigged" , because sports can be rigged so majority of the bettors will lose. As a gambler, I think we should be aware of that so we would know where to bet, some sports are not too obvious but it's happening inside.

Most of this is happening in boxing where we don't really know how it works and sometimes it is not obvious. we will just see one day that the fight was fixed by hearing it from the fighters who fought in the ring. you can see the example with this fight and they agreed the fight was indeed fixed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smHkN2ZpFWo

I was about to talk about that but you got first on it. Well, among most sports, Boxing is one of the highest paying one along with the gambling side that comes to every match. With this, a common fixed or rigged match has been set just for the money which both parties have agreed on.
If I am right, this also happens on other major sport leagues such as Football, Basketball but not as obvious. Another sports, where a fixed match or a rigged match is commonly set on is on E-sports which has been reported countless times but still has not ended rather fined by the higher ups.

[BevNation]

In my country every government during the election campaign have the statement we'll abolish corruption on the sports in the manifesto. Is this is common or I'm seeing this on my country. In each and every game, during the selection process bribe is being given. This has made several able sportsmen discontinue their passion on sports and do some routine job for their living.

Same as this is the gambling, more key players are involved with match fixing even after getting huge sum of money after every match winning/losing. Why certain sportsmen have such greed towards money when people are starving to have a single meal on a day.

I can't say anything on the match fixing as there are only suspicions to that though, i don't deny it to be possible but, the issue of bribery in sports especially in countries where sports is yet to be of standard as per international participation, high pays and all, it is a very challenging situation for sportsmen without funds to offer in selection. Its a very bad idea as you find most of the best sports men being left out and as such, we have more poor and poor quality of players.

[Twentyonepaylots]

Two things, money and power. People will change behaviors at the site of a heck-ton of money. that is just the way of life. Greed may take over their conscience, which in that case they will be doing everything that they can do to get more money, even if it means disadvantaging the poor. Power on the other hand, is also a certain factor, when you have more money, you are king. And these figures will do anything to gain more money than the other guy to ensure that at the end of the line, he is the king.