Football Against Racism

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Viewpoints vary concerning the effectiveness of FIFA’s efforts to counter the racism, as well as how prevalent it even is within the sport. One critic, Piare Powar, the director of Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE), said that he was disappointed with the lack of action from FIFA during the 2014 World Cup. There were at least a dozen separate accounts of racial abuse that happened just during the one month that the games took place between June and July 2014. According to Powar, “FIFA should have done more to tackle discrimination at the World Cup” (Skysports.com). Incidents of racism during the World Cup were not sanctioned by FIFA and many of them went unpunished. The effort to stop racism at first sounds effective, but based on the absence of action taken by FIFA, it has clearly made little to no progress. …show more content…

One report criticized the consistency of their anti-discrimination disciplinary committee by saying “There are incidents that are sanctioned in World Cup qualifiers, but similar incidents that take place during the tournament itself are dismissed” (Telegraph.co.uk). This shows that FIFA’s campaign has fault to begin with because the committee members are able to decide individually which incidents are punished and which are not rather than having a standard to ensure uniformity. This limits the fight against racism in football because it is being overlooked and therefore impossible to

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