Sports

Some claim that sports has nothing to do with politics. Unfortunately, the world has seen several times that the opposite is true. In 1936 Hitler used the games in Berlin to promote his Nazi politics, in 1972 in Munich 11 Israeli athletes were assasinated, and in 1980 more than 60 countries boykotted the games in Moscow due to the Russian intervention in Afgahnistan. However, there is more, nearly every Olympic game has shown some political aspect; read all about it in the Guardian . 

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Football is maybe the most enjoyed and practised sport in the world today, and thus it is also influential, ie what famous football players say and do is noticed worldwide by the upcoming generation as well as leaders and politicians. Consequently, when the players say they are not preoccupied with what their governing bodies (FIFA) do, they send an important message to the world, ie do what you want as long as we can play football. Corruption ruins democracy and should nowhere be accepted! Read more about the FIFA scandal in today's Guardian or the BBC.