Corruption and Sports

[swogerino]

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.

That is because of human nature which is greedy by default.A lot of regulators like laws,constitutions and even religion up to a certain point try to make man a better person in general.Of course these entities also threaten people who do not abide by the laws and this is what keeps human race go.They say humans are the greatest merciless animals if not controlled with the above means.

As per your case in sports those sportsman who do that have no moral values and don’t care for the laws as long as they achieve their financial goals.

[Peanutswar]

I think this is quite normal and most of the higher officials are the ones taking the outcome of the game but if this can goes into their international play I think most of the viewers will directly notice the game and the player throwing and this is not good and healthy to the world of sports because for sure this reduces the reputation of their names and the whole organization of the team. Sometimes they cant notice that kind of throw games just to extend the possible income to both teams. Like the best of five-game, the other team 1 win away to get the championship of course some of them want to extend the game more to they can earn more viewers and profit.

[yazher]

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.

That is because of human nature which is greedy by default.A lot of regulators like laws,constitutions and even religion up to a certain point try to make man a better person in general.Of course these entities also threaten people who do not abide by the laws and this is what keeps human race go.They say humans are the greatest merciless animals if not controlled with the above means.

As per your case in sports those sportsman who do that have no moral values and don’t care for the laws as long as they achieve their financial goals.

We cannot deny that some sportsman does their job well when competing in the court or in the ring. no matter what will the outcome is. Just like what happened to the other athletes when they didn't want to lose the game even though they got some threat with something evil. There are lots of cases such as this happening in the sports industry. The others have no option as if they are only getting there to throw the game. Because some of them got some deadly threat which made them lose their concentration and skills. You can read it here to know more about it.


https://www.thesportster.com/entertainment/20-athletes-who-have-received-death-threats/

[abel1337]

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.

Can I ask what country do you coming from? I think game-fixing is not that mainstream on media of course but I'm sure there are underground deals on fixing a game. For the sake of money, Teams and individuals are agreeing with the fixed game, or sometimes they are threatened. I'm pretty sure that there are authorities backing up with these schemes but they are shut with the money and ended up athlete's passion being destroyed.

I had an experience losing a bunch of money on a single bet because it is fixed. It is later discovered that the game is fixed but the money I lose on that game doesn't come back to me.

[passwordnow]

I think this is quite normal and most of the higher officials are the ones taking the outcome of the game but if this can goes into their international play I think most of the viewers will directly notice the game and the player throwing and this is not good and healthy to the world of sports because for sure this reduces the reputation of their names and the whole organization of the team.

It's hard to notice if there are players that are still throwing games for the sports that they're good at. It's a career for them and they have principles to protect and boast rather than being bought by money. But we know that it's also possible that they can be bought and sell out a game and let the other players win. But as for the officials, there really are some dirty works that happens inside the organization, corruption about funds and budgets that should be for the athletes yet the officials are putting it onto their pockets.

[Mauser]

I think this is quite normal and most of the higher officials are the ones taking the outcome of the game but if this can goes into their international play I think most of the viewers will directly notice the game and the player throwing and this is not good and healthy to the world of sports because for sure this reduces the reputation of their names and the whole organization of the team.

It's hard to notice if there are players that are still throwing games for the sports that they're good at. It's a career for them and they have principles to protect and boast rather than being bought by money. But we know that it's also possible that they can be bought and sell out a game and let the other players win. But as for the officials, there really are some dirty works that happens inside the organization, corruption about funds and budgets that should be for the athletes yet the officials are putting it onto their pockets.

In team games the pressure is just too high to perform. I would imagine that if you start throwing games it becomes noticeable to your teammates and they will pressure you, or you become replaced. This is probably why corruption on football focuses more on the referee than on players. His power is much higher than that of one player, but it becomes more difficult due to video assistance these days.

[YuginKadoya]

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.

It is hard to trust what the government is saying because sometimes it can surely end up in promises fixing or abolishing the corruption on sports or inside the governments is pretty big of a job if the only one that wants that will be the president or the vice president and his/her subordinate would surely don't want to allow such things, It will be a big of a task, or if that will be just their platform to win the election but it will be just a promise that often forgets,

in sports, game-fixing is simply normal if you would think that way, but even if there are often sports match or games that are fixed or rigged there are always trustworthy ones that simply want a good match-up, but we can not just always accuse all of them that they are rigged or fixed.

[hahay]

Money can always change anything, so it's no wonder that a sportsman or person who has a position cannot control his greed, so that anyone will definitely get involved with hot money because it is something that is very likely to happen to anyone. The election campaign promise is like just something to find appeal to the wider community, even though we don't know what will happen next. Therefore, I personally don't always heed that promise because in the present and next life with whoever the leader is, we need to work to earn money and always be careful to carry out any activities to avoid fraud or something like that.

[passwordnow]

I think this is quite normal and most of the higher officials are the ones taking the outcome of the game but if this can goes into their international play I think most of the viewers will directly notice the game and the player throwing and this is not good and healthy to the world of sports because for sure this reduces the reputation of their names and the whole organization of the team.

It's hard to notice if there are players that are still throwing games for the sports that they're good at. It's a career for them and they have principles to protect and boast rather than being bought by money. But we know that it's also possible that they can be bought and sell out a game and let the other players win. But as for the officials, there really are some dirty works that happens inside the organization, corruption about funds and budgets that should be for the athletes yet the officials are putting it onto their pockets.

In team games the pressure is just too high to perform. I would imagine that if you start throwing games it becomes noticeable to your teammates and they will pressure you, or you become replaced. This is probably why corruption on football focuses more on the referee than on players. His power is much higher than that of one player, but it becomes more difficult due to video assistance these days.

I don't know much about football but I think that's also the same in other sports that has referees. The other team or any of them can take advantage of it, those movies that I've used to watch locally have some extortion that happens for the referees. I'm not thinking and try to exaggerate but as others are telling, some incidents like that are really happening. And for individual players, you said it, it's noticeable if there's something wrong with their performance.

[TheNineClub]

There is also one additional factor in sports corruption (and I don't know if anyone has mentioned it), and that's doping, which itself is a form of corruption, especially when you factor in state-sponsored doping as we had with the whole Russian athletes controversy in the Olympics. There is a great documentary about it called Icarus that might interest some of you. The problem with doping is that it's not just greed that's the factor, but also a personal achievement that is fueling the decision to take performance-enhancing drugs or not. Another factor is that, unlike money-specific corruption, doping corruption can not be controlled by the state that easily.

[akirasendo17]

there are two things also that never disappear in the world, the believers, and liars, once you believe on what a person says, even if you knew there is something wrong, thats when corruption starts because they knew that their words are the words that you will only believe in, not only corruption are in sports also politics and what they call backer, if you are nobody even if you are good , chance are you will be replace with their friends even relatives, its the reality.

[bitterguy28]

Politician will promise Earth , Moon and Sun just to get our Vote so why believe those stupid words?

Do you still believe in Their promises ? lol listening in the campaign sorties and rallies with the sugar coated words of Politicians is irritating for me .

Thats why when elections season comes ? i prefer not to watch news in regards to them lol.

[Wawa2013]

When talking about corruption in the world of sports, I immediately remember the dark history of Italian football, namely the Calciopoli tragedy.
The Calciopoli tragedy or what is also known as Moggiopoli, because indeed the general director of Juventus, Luciano Moggi, was involved in match
fixing. And finally it hurt several teams such as Juventus, AC Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio and Reggina. But the one who got the heaviest punishment
was Juventus.

Learning from this incident must be given the toughest law in case of corruption in the world of sports against all those involved.  So that the incident
does not happen again, because there must be a lot of people who are harmed. Not only sportsmen and supporters of the team, but some gamblers
who used to bet for Serie A teams were at a disadvantage.

[Viscore]

Politician will promise Earth , Moon and Sun just to get our Vote so why believe those stupid words?

Do you still believe in Their promises ? lol listening in the campaign sorties and rallies with the sugar coated words of Politicians is irritating for me .

Thats why when elections season comes ? i prefer not to watch news in regards to them lol.

I have to agree, we know that what politicians said are not always true especially during campaign period, they will always say those powerful words that will attract people so we will vote for them, after the election, they'll start doing their thing.

The thing is, if a country is one of the most corrupt in the world, their officials are also corrupt, so at the end of the day, its just all about money.

[Yamifoud]

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.

How did you know it's happening? Are they caught and convicted for rigging games in their favor?

I mean corruption happens in sports but it's not that rampant as we think since only few are proven rigging games and that will put them into serious trouble. I believe this is just only an speculation, but it's useful in sports betting knowing things are happening, it means we are not ignorant.

[kotajikikox]

I have to agree, we know that what politicians said are not always true especially during campaign period, they will always say those powerful words that will attract people so we will vote for them, after the election, they'll start doing their thing.

actually i agreed also and not just sometimes but most of the time or the words they give us when election campaign days , only few comes true .

this is why i only listen sometimes and give my trust to the candidates that i made a research deeply.

The thing is, if a country is one of the most corrupt in the world, their officials are also corrupt, so at the end of the day, its just all about money.

Money can change everything mate, from good person to bad but not bad to good lol.

[alegotardo]

The thing is, if a country is one of the most corrupt in the world, their officials are also corrupt, so at the end of the day, its just all about money.

You're right!

Where money is involved... certainly, there has corruption.
Sport should be something that brings you pleasure, entertainment. But it started to be "distorted" at the moment the man saw the chance to make money with it.
Well, we use the sport ourselves to make money on the gambling sites, right!?

For this reason, nothing replaces "pelada" (football between friends on weekends here in Brazil) where the only goal is to have fun (but covid ruined that too)... this is a real sport.

[ice098]

Money can always change anything, so it's no wonder that a sportsman or person who has a position cannot control his greed, so that anyone will definitely get involved with hot money because it is something that is very likely to happen to anyone. The election campaign promise is like just something to find appeal to the wider community, even though we don't know what will happen next. Therefore, I personally don't always heed that promise because in the present and next life with whoever the leader is, we need to work to earn money and always be careful to carry out any activities to avoid fraud or something like that.

It is really hard to stop that corruption and that gambling anomaly, a government will give all those false help and promises just to get your vote because they knew that these kind of topic are the most favorite thing of all people in their country, but it is really sad that there are some corruption is sports that a public figure are involved that's why some of our athletes in my country want to be part of other country's roster when you ask them what are your plans and dreams they will say " I want to be in NBA" because their talent is not being seen in here.

[michellee]

Politician will promise Earth , Moon and Sun just to get our Vote so why believe those stupid words?

Do you still believe in Their promises ? lol listening in the campaign sorties and rallies with the sugar coated words of Politicians is irritating for me .

Thats why when elections season comes ? i prefer not to watch news in regards to them lol.

Unfortunately, many people still believe that, especially if that candidate can convince many people that they have a better concept after being elected. Maybe we do not believe them, but people will try to search for the right people and vote for them. Unfortunately, they pick the wrong candidates in the election voting. But the candidate itself can bribe the people to vote for them to win the election.

[imstillthebest]

every government? but how many government does a country have . it could be the officials that you mean but thats annoying if how many times a candidate can promise it and still no one does it for real .
on what country you are living op but you can make it a secret to protect your countries dignity . that is not common because there must be one government official that can make thier promises come true . in game matches not all team can recieve huge money if they loose thats why they recieve money from fixed matches but if they wont recieve this money i dont think poor families will benefit from that