Football is a popular game and thus it is very common to find controversies associated with it. We can see a new controversy almost daily in this game from Benjamin Mandy accusation of rape charges along with Louis Saha Mattori to match-fixing and doping we have scores of controversies that can be traced to the football ground. Today we will talk about five major controversies in the history of Football that fans must know about their cricketers and game. You will be surprised to know these most popular top five controversies in Football.
1. Drug doping in FIFA world cup 1994, Diego Maradona
The first controversy, to begin with, is associated with legend footballer Diego Maradona who was caught in the FIFA world cup in 1994 for doping in the match. The Maradona confronted serious results for this and was immediately expelled by the authorities. People his fans and everyone on the ground for stunned to know about this controversy as such a heinous thing was not accepted by a legendary football player. The moment Diego Maradona did injustice to his profession his fame starts sinking and he vanished from the hearts of fans.
2. Match Fixing controversy with Choi Sung Kuk
Another controversy to enumerate here is linked to Choi Sung Kuk who is accused of fixing a football match. The footballer faced serious results from a lifetime ban from FIFA in 2011 when he admitted that he was involved in the match-fixing. The entire football fan association from Korea to the rest of the world was not able to understand this sudden throwback in his life which destroyed his entire career within seconds. He is still considered the best footballer but fans never forgot what he did to his game.
3. Charges on sexual harassment on benzamine Mandy and Ronaldo
Benzamine Mandy who is a renowned footballer has been accused of rape charges multiple times along with sexual harassment by many women. The footballer is seeing a hard time and has to undergo trials after trials for coming such a heinous crime. Apart from Mandy the ace footballer Cristiano Ronaldo also went through sexual harassment charges from which he later came off. But it put Ronaldo in trouble for a long while and a massive loss in his fan following for a longer period of time also.
4. Bruce Grobbelaar 1994 controversy for match-fixing
Football history cannot forget the name of Bruce Grobbelaar for conducting a match-fixing in 1994. He got good heaps of money in return for fixing a match and it took his entire career from him. The soul of people was shaking and fans were disheartened to see such things happening in soccer. Even people had chitchatting about things like every football match is fixed and it is a waste to go and watch football matches in return for hard-earned money. Though this is not the first controversy with match-fixing still people were very disappointed with the player’s attitude towards the game.
5. Sudden and unexpected murder of Andres Escobar
Andres Escobar’s murder was again a big surprise to the fans as he was killed out of a sudden. There are many rumors which may be true that fans killed him when he missed a major goal on the ground which led to losing the match at the hands of opponents. Though it was not match-fixing for which he knowingly dropped the goal but still people were not ready to accept the defeat and killed the footballer in order to quench their wrath.
These are the major incidents and controversies that we can have on the football grounds related to the game and players. Although we can cunt hundred plus controversies from football these are the major ones which we cannot skip to know. Football is a game that is meant to be played with full honesty and match-fixing is not a way to be a good footballer we should apply the same funda for the rest of the games also. Those who involve in heinous tasks like match-fixing get a life ban mostly which puts their career to an end. That is why one must be careful to stay away from such crimes.
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