Sports opinion

who is in Charge?

Hussein Al-Shaibani

April 19, 2021

Football is known as the game of the poor, because it does not need money to play or watch it, unlike some sports, such as tennis and golf.

Football is a team sport, which depends on the talent and skill of the player, and on collective cooperation, and anyone who has talent can play this enjoyable game.

Since the first decades of the last century, the round witch has been the game in which the poor forget their worries and bandage their wounds .. They play in the street and public squares .. and it does not cost anything, because the old ball is a "pile of cloth", and later it is sold for a small price, but the dream is stolen from The poor, because the masses can no longer watch football matches for free, interact with them and enjoy their surprises for entertainment, and forget about the misfortunes and troubles of their lives in the time of the pandemic in particular.

The game was stolen from them, the ball was snatched from their feet, and chickens laying eggs in gold for the rich and unions around the world, and the prices of tickets and television rights suddenly rose, and they became encrypted, turning the game into something managed by the rich, and the ancient teams in the world became like big companies, making deals related to selling Players, and a conflict in the stock market, to the point where the poor are no longer able to enter to enjoy and watch his favorite game.

How can a poor person enjoy watching football? Tickets to enter the matches are very expensive for him, and very limited, and if he wants to watch his favorite team and his country on television, he must subscribe and pay money, and this is what he cannot afford.

The blame does not lie on the broadcasting channels, but on the AFC, which deprived a large segment of the masses of football fun by raising the value of television broadcasting rights for the Asian Club Championship to fantastic numbers, equal to the budget of some countries per year! Their slogan became "Pay to see your favorite team". It is the globalization of blackmailing the feelings of the masses, and robbing them of their minds and pockets, and a large segment of the masses took several ways to search for sites and links to broadcast these matches, but it is useless, and even some countries hosted their group, but their fans could not attend, because of the pandemic and the AFC, and because of raising The value of television broadcasting rights, all doors are closed for fans and viewers to follow their lover (football) .. We must find a solution to the greed of the AFC, and the greed of commercial and sponsoring companies .. Who bears the responsibility for not broadcasting the matches of the Asian champions in satellite? The biggest loser from the increase in the value of television rights is the "AFC".

• The biggest loser from the increase in the value of television rights is the "AFC".

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