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Sports and politics. They sound like 2 completely different topics but they can be linked. In my country, soccer is by far the most popular sport. Everyone has a favorite team and follows every match scores.

The government (or call it the b*tch we have as president) launched a program called "Soccer for everyone". They spent around 800 million to broadcast all kinds of soccer matches and take them to even the poorest parts of the country. All of the people who got to "enjoy" that program ended up voting for her (she was obviously aiming for reelection). As a result, that b*tch is still our president and seems to want to turn us into Cuba.

Sports can be manipulated by politicians to sometimes distract people from real issues too. Do you agree or beg to differ?

Discuss!
 
Well, in my country, sports was used to get into politics. If you know Manny Pacquiao, you would see how his popularity as a boxing champion aided his campaign for congress. I think people just followed the hype when they were voting. I mean, it's the congress, for God's sake! You need a deep understanding of the law to be an effective congressman. And he can't even speak fluent English, for starters. Yes, he's an awesome boxer and all, but I think he should just stay out of politics.
 
Very interesting. Politicians are going to do whatever they can to gain a reelection. If sports are popular in a certain area, of course they are going to do something to appeal to those voters. They will, of course, then go to the next area where perhaps church is really important and take on the bible bumper role!
 
btatro said:
Very interesting. Politicians are going to do whatever they can to gain a reelection. If sports are popular in a certain area, of course they are going to do something to appeal to those voters. They will, of course, then go to the next area where perhaps church is really important and take on the bible bumper role!
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On that note, Pacquiao also said that he might retire soon and would rather teach the Word of God to other people. I don't know where he got that crap but he said in the interview that he recently "saw the light" or something.
 
anothertennisfan said:
Sports and politics. They sound like 2 completely different topics but they can be linked. In my country, soccer is by far the most popular sport. Everyone has a favorite team and follows every match scores.

The government (or call it the b*tch we have as president) launched a program called "Soccer for everyone". They spent around 800 million to broadcast all kinds of soccer matches and take them to even the poorest parts of the country. All of the people who got to "enjoy" that program ended up voting for her (she was obviously aiming for reelection). As a result, that b*tch is still our president and seems to want to turn us into Cuba.

Sports can be manipulated by politicians to sometimes distract people from real issues too. Do you agree or beg to differ?

Discuss!
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Sounds to me, my friend, that the country you refer to so obliquely is Argentina.

Lots of countries, particularly those in Latin America and a few other places where populist elected leaders and/or dictators tend to hold the reins of political power, use sports and sports arenas to entertain the masses and keep them under the government thumb by distracting them as much as possible. It's an ancient concept, really; the Romans called it panem et circuses, or "bread and circuses."
 
There are have been many times when the two have been more than mixed. Especially when the ref might be from a hostile country. Tends to happen in Eastern-Europe and South America mostly.
 
Sports and politics always have and always will be mixed, for the simple fact of International Level sports. Countries competing against countries. Things will go wrong, referee's will get things wrong or a player says something wrong. Any of those things could turn a match the wrong way and effectively put a country into turmoil.
 
angeldrb said:
On that note, Pacquiao also said that he might retire soon and would rather teach the Word of God to other people. I don't know where he got that crap but he said in the interview that he recently "saw the light" or something.
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You will certainly see this issue go both ways. This can also be seen in other entertainment areas. One example is actors/ actresses and politics (i.e.: Arnold Schwarzenagar).
 
Gotta respect the Argentina way... all of them are little Maradona's

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Fardreamer said:
Sounds to me, my friend, that the country you refer to so obliquely is Argentina.
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My location was supposed to remain undisclosed for eternity... but you're actually right :P Not many countries have female presidents. And ours is definitely a major ****.

Fardreamer said:
Lots of countries, particularly those in Latin America and a few other places where populist elected leaders and/or dictators tend to hold the reins of political power, use sports and sports arenas to entertain the masses and keep them under the government thumb by distracting them as much as possible. It's an ancient concept, really; the Romans called it panem et circuses, or "bread and circuses."
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Worst part is, most people are aware of that way of controlling the masses but they're a part of it too. Even teachers at school. The first 20 minutes of class are spent talking about soccer. I get how sports can create fanaticism but there's a point where it goes way too far. You can ask any of those soccer fan kids and they have no clue about politics or real issues happening in my country (like the changes in customs and imports which will have a huge impact on prices). But they sure how how every team in the C division did the night before :eek5:

@DENPAZ0R: Every mode made in my country...

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What really happened isn't as "nice" as I briefly described it. Not everyone got the free decoder to watch TV. Just potential voters. And after she won the elections, they shut down many of the programs that used to benefit the lazy and non-working classes who obviously voted for her. And where do you think those 800 million came from?
 
I think they sometimes use sports as a way of related to common people. Thats why you sometimes see mayors and governors taking part in silly bets that nobody really cares about. Sports are used to increase likability. It's a pawn to politicians. Whether or not they care is a non factor.
 
I'm utterly disappointed in some politicians who only use sports to appeal to the masses, but when they already win the elections, they don't give funds or invest in it. Here in my country, we only have one or two national sports teams and they rarely go to international sports events because of the lack of funding. Private organizations are the only ones who offer training to sports enthusiast and the government doesn't seem to give much attention to them.
 
Politics and sports should not be linked to together. It will be bad if they ever do. In order to get voters to vote for them by buying tickets for them or something is wrong. That is my opinion anyways.
 
c.schreiber said:
Politics and sports should not be linked to together. It will be bad if they ever do. In order to get voters to vote for them by buying tickets for them or something is wrong. That is my opinion anyways.
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Politics and sports should actually be linked together to the extent that government officials give productive sports programs to athletes. That's it.

Bribing the public with free tickets or TV programs is just very unethical and, technically, unlawful.
 
Well politics and sports go hand in hand and has been happening since the time of the Romans. Do you remember Commodus from the movie the Gladiator? He was an emperor yet he still participated in the sports. It's not because of influence from other politicians but because of psychology. As humans we tend to become the center of attention, we want people to praise us, it's human nature.

PS Commodus was a real emperor, and he existed. What they did in the movie was they exaggerated the story about commodus.
 
angeldrb said:
Politics and sports should actually be linked together to the extent that government officials give productive sports programs to athletes. That's it.

Bribing the public with free tickets or TV programs is just very unethical and, technically, unlawful.
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And I totally agree with you on this. I don't why the government officials should be allow to do this in the first place. They should be banned from doing that period.
 
anothertennisfan said:
Sports and politics. They sound like 2 completely different topics but they can be linked. In my country, soccer is by far the most popular sport. Everyone has a favorite team and follows every match scores.

The government (or call it the b*tch we have as president) launched a program called "Soccer for everyone". They spent around 800 million to broadcast all kinds of soccer matches and take them to even the poorest parts of the country. All of the people who got to "enjoy" that program ended up voting for her (she was obviously aiming for reelection). As a result, that b*tch is still our president and seems to want to turn us into Cuba.

Sports can be manipulated by politicians to sometimes distract people from real issues too. Do you agree or beg to differ?

Discuss!
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The sports and politics can be intertwined in game playing, ownership and trading players among other aspects. That darn politic word gets into many things it should never be included in. The day we see no politics in sports will be a cold day in July.This is a good topic.Thank you.
 
As long as the PLAYERS stay out of politics for the most part I'm okay with it. There's nothing worse than listening to players who know nothing about politics spouting off about it. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule.
 
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