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Introduction
A lot of fans be violent when the team they’re supporting loses. Violence refers to harmful intentional physical acts motivated during a sports game. Mostly in relation to physical sports like soccer, American football, rugby, ice hockey, boxing, wrestling, lacrosse and martial Arts. The main focus is fans being violent in soccer. Most soccer players involved in potentially illegal physical contact; this act includes intentional attempt to get a player of the field. Violence in soccer by the supporters(fans) is also related to nationalism. Fans are really violent in International soccer games like the World Cup. It involves harmful actions caused by the fans between the supporters of the rivals teams and most of the time these fights take place after games. They choose a specific place to fight each other to avoid the attention of the police.
Ethical Issue Overview
Fan violence can be at times be prompted by violent actions that involve the players themselves or any other form of event that could be taking place during a game or even disturbances and riots that are sport-related and often they occur for other reasons. Fan violence in international soccer has been on the increase as it is known as the existence of an essentially unstable and abnormal temperament in some individuals who happen for some reason to have taken soccer as an arena in which they act out their instabilities. (Smith, 1983) It became very hard to push fans who misbehave because a lot of people show to games and it’s a little difficult for the police to take control.
The international soccer federation deals with issues of providing seats in place of standing accommodation. The stakeholders of soccer games are international football(soccer) federation. The issue of fans being violent affects the stakeholders in a way of how they going to deal with this huge issue. When the fans get together to watch a soccer game, a lot could happen and the only way to deal with this issue is to get the police involved. Also, make they’re the once taking total control of what’s going on. The punishment was given to the offenders and those who participate in football(soccer) hooliganism should match the seriousness of the offense. The football fans are mainly controlled by the activities and the popularize of different clubs. (Smith, 1987).
Ethical Issue Analysis
Sport impacted by the ethical issue
Soccer(football) is the sport that is impacted by this issue (fans violence in soccer on the professional level). The fans embark on slogans, songs and dance to able to demonstrate the love to the team they support. The violence the fans commit is seen as a part of participation in the game and the fans who participate in violence on the professional level are young males or females who are unemployed.
The interest of stakeholders affected the issue
As mentioned above, the stakeholders are the ones involved. The stakeholders examine the issue of content and access the moral status of the action. Who performs the actions, actions that are performed by the supporter(fans) are outside the rules of the federation of international Soccer(football) are considered to be morally acceptable.