Topic: Politics have always been a part of football, and that shouldn't change. (Read 128 times)

Well, football is such an interesting game and deservingly so popular and that is why it is bound to have an influence on whatever is being preached on the football grounds and by the most famous of players, like there are so many sports in the world but globally the stardom is most for the famous footballers, Messi or Ronaldo etc. When Ronaldo put that water bottle in that place of coca cola, it surely sent a message to millions indeed, for good

We must also not fail to understand the fact that whenever politics is involved in a settings, there's always no transparency in the whole thing which cannot be applicable to football game which deal with pure transparency and fairness in judgement, politics is a game of those in a political power or ambition to face the embedded constitute of political ambition, sport games needed to be either control by government affairs or an individual or corporate body where the decision is being made and controlled.

In general, however, football is football, and politics is politics. These two things should never be blended. Football is a king sport that represents unity, teamwork, and human emotions. Politics is a complex social issue that influences people's perceptions. Allow personal feelings and thoughts to influence a collective, international image.

The clear example of your point is the English Premier league where one or two English players must be in the starting eleven. The view is to have the countries players having more minutes in competitive club football. Football has been used to hault even wars in the past. We can't take politics outta football and sport but it should be reduce to the barest minimum, so as not to take away the fun

i remember one statement from a politician in my country, he said "in politics, football can be used as diplomacy and propaganda" so football and politics are two things that cannot be separated .. especially in countries where football is the most popular sport, football is very much tied to politics, for example in developing countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia

Politics will not only be on football rather wherever there is a huge number of people gathered, they always are there and sometimes the churches nowadays are been used to being one of the places to propagate the corrupt official's propaganda and they've been using the Priest and the others for that. here in our place, they use basketball because it is the popular sport here. Politics games are the most decisive game you ever know because your friend today will become your enemy tomorrow just because of their ambition to become the highest rank of all.

I understand your idea. However, in reality, there is so many cases that politics affect the result or the fair of sport.

Reading through OP, have been trying to get a relativism of your content with the threads subject but, I just don't nail it right. My views as to politics and sports brings me to a point of dishonest practices where some players could be favoured more than others as per figuring in a game, where referees seems to give the home base team a chance to lead, where players of clubs origin are rationed to have more playing time as opposed to others despite qualifications and fitness.

Although, in the context you've raised which I see to be more of societal ills, football as a sport and sports in general is one solution to them. It doenst matter that athletes are there to compete but, it showcases the talents in them races, generates income for a course, teach reasons to why what should be what and harmonises the people. Sports and football in particular is doing a lot to correcting certain societal ills and should be left that way.

Let's forget about football here and face the reality about politics, this is a game on itself that is common in every settings, men play politics as an act to dubiously manipulate result from what its meant to be to suit their selfish desires and taste and one of the ways through which politics is being displayed is through racism, why do you think racism occur, it's just a simplify way of perverting justice in favour of one over the other using color or ethnic groups.

Before each game, players and officials took a knee to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Sky Sports commentators wore pins to show their support for the movement, and people talked more openly about racism in football. This doesn't mean that this solved the problem of racism in society as a whole, because of course it didn't. Still, it showed again how powerful football can be in politics.
Politics and football are so intertwined that it is impossible to separate them. It has always been. Politics haven't been added to football recently. It has been the place where political and social issues have been played out over and over again, for better or for worse.
During the 1970s and 1980s, football grounds were one of the most obvious places where racism was still alive and well in Britain. The rise of hooliganism also showed that some people were unhappy with society as a whole.Because football is so popular, it shows society and its problems in a way that few other things do. Because it is so well-known, it could be a strong voice for change, like Black Lives Matter.
Marcus Rashford most recently used this voice to support free school meals. The 23-year-old forward has been very vocal about how he doesn't agree with the government's plans to cut off provision during school breaks.
People who say politics shouldn't be in football only say this about things they don't want to deal with. Because football is so popular, any issue it takes on gets a lot of attention. Most of the time, this doesn't seem to be a big deal. Football often backs campaigns about prostate cancer, men's mental health, and the rainbow laces campaign, which wants to make the sport more welcoming to LGBT people.
Do you think that politics and football should be separate?