In recent years, anti racist organizations have created movements in European football to decrease racism. Because Europe has a growing migrant population of several nationalities and backgrounds, racism is present towards non white players arriving to play in professional teams across the continent. Reoccurring racist behavior acted upon by fans and players has seen racism become a negative side to the “beautiful game.” Racism is an important sociological issue within European football that organizations such as FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe) are trying to tackle in order to progress to decrease the problem of racism.
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Both themes of prevention by raising awareness through propaganda and campaigning, and the use of disciplinary action to cut down on racism have favorable attributes. Although discipline is ensuring that guilty individuals meet punishments for racist acts, it is much more difficult to cut down on racism because of the lack of surveillance that is possible to catch all actors in and around football stadiums. In comparison, raising awareness reaches all subject that correspond to the football community whether they are appreciative of the message or not. The use of mass media and promotion by soccer teams to apprehend racism is more useful than disciplinary action because it uses the favorable power of popularity. Popularity is a major tool to use in order to fight racism in European football, if your favorite players or team are influential in endorsing the movement it makes it more difficult to maintain the same racist morals, contradicting the support for your favorable party. Further, the impact of organized movements to raise awareness and education on the subject of racism in football stands as a more effective process in the prevention of racism.
In conclusion, the measures taken to prevent racism in European football is important as the reputation of the game is at stake. The problem racism plays within football is one that could be applied to a larger scale in terms of sports and other institutions world wide. Future research can be presented to view and compare how methods for prevention of racism in other sports can be used to decrease racism in European soccer. Another point of research can be the level of education the average football club posses to view if it correlates with levels of racist
The movement to decrease racism in European football is one example of the growing importance the sport must undertake …show more content…
Both themes of prevention by raising awareness through propaganda and campaigning, and the use of disciplinary action to cut down on racism have favorable attributes. Although discipline is ensuring that guilty individuals meet punishments for racist acts, it is much more difficult to cut down on racism because of the lack of surveillance that is possible to catch all actors in and around football stadiums. In comparison, raising awareness reaches all subject that correspond to the football community whether they are appreciative of the message or not. The use of mass media and promotion by soccer teams to apprehend racism is more useful than disciplinary action because it uses the favorable power of popularity. Popularity is a major tool to use in order to fight racism in European football, if your favorite players or team are influential in endorsing the movement it makes it more difficult to maintain the same racist morals, contradicting the support for your favorable party. Further, the impact of organized movements to raise awareness and education on the subject of racism in football stands as a more effective process in the prevention of racism.
In conclusion, the measures taken to prevent racism in European football is important as the reputation of the game is at stake. The problem racism plays within football is one that could be applied to a larger scale in terms of sports and other institutions world wide. Future research can be presented to view and compare how methods for prevention of racism in other sports can be used to decrease racism in European soccer. Another point of research can be the level of education the average football club posses to view if it correlates with levels of racist