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Friday, April 15, 2011

Corruption or eviction

Come the first week of January 2011, when the ashes reach their final stages and the current test team No. 1 in the world, India will face off against the Proteas in the backyard of Africa, far away in distant lands Doha, Qatar, three men at the end of a table long black questioning three other men are bombarded at the other end with questions of all shapes and sizes and in the form of demons. The chin music that will give the trio contaminated Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, who, as a matter of fact, have not been proven guilty. As they prepare for which, I suppose, we all hope that the final verdict on the point of attachment scandal, but followed by a question mark deep and prolonged.

As the three figures with legal expertise of Michael Beloff, an English lawyer and the head of the ICC Code of Conduct Commission, Albie Sachs, South African retired judge, and Sharad Rao, an attorney of Indian origin leader of Kenya introduced in fact legal and contractual questions to the trio, all of us, waiting waiting for the results, we asked whether the fans and play the knight preachers answers to your questions or not ..........

The answers probably will not meet the issues raised in the minds of the millions perplexed that good in the morning was a nobody named Mazhar Majeed with wads of cash in pounds piled on the table before him, a bottle of beer by the hand and accidentally getting lost in a 'registered' broadcast live over millions to see, around the world. The revelations not only proved to be too expensive for him and the players he managed, but also proved to be another shameful blight on the pride of sport and cricket administration destroyed a whole country, broken and shattered.

sports heroes, build their careers, their entire lives in one important aspect, the reputation ....... reputation as a fighter, a reputation as a champion, a reputation as a man of honor, pride and, above all, dignity. So, why after years and years of hard work and perseverance, which all slip in a moment? How is that a powerful force that can carry more than the spirit of the game and what makes it so? How big money is involved that leads them to sell their careers? These for us blind believers sports stars are the basic questions to be answered, not only in cricket but in one and all domains of the religion called SPORT.

Match-fixing or point of attachment, as in this scenario, are not new to the sport, as we all know. And cricket is not the only area where gamblers keep their guard dogs on their toes. Football, tennis, hockey and other sports that are played at international level have had their share of the shameful tragedy.

In the case of Pakistanis in this recent incident, the most obvious reason behind its absolute illogical, more ethical, the decision appears to be relatively poor financial background of the family from which have emerged suddenly (especially in the case of Mohammad Amir , the youngest and brightest talents of Cricket in Pakistan) to the cash-rich world, where there seems to ever-increasing possibilities of increasing the number of digits in your bank account more than one scenario is not prescribed. Can possibly be spared a thought as the world looks to them as residents of a country on the condition of a "people robbed, for now. But again, the assessment of an athlete of" non-rational ' decision to end his career and yet when you think otherwise, one can only speculate and never draw definitions.

And for many of us, who may think the green refuge is the only motivating factor for such acts of self-destruction, think about your stats again. What could have made John Higgins, former world snooker champion and a champion of champions for the case, strike his honor by the hole in the corner? In April this year, Higgins had been a victim of the spying operations in the same medium as in the case of Pakistan cricket team, News of the World, when the tape was filmed in the talks before games with some assumptions bookmaker. Apparently, at that point in time, Higgins was one of the highest paid athletes in the world and came from what is called "free of corruption" West of Scotland. Although finally somehow managed to save his race meeting a dead end, it was a slap in the face with a six-month ban and a fine of 75.000 pounds simple, which critics call a decision many sports as meek by the officials.

And what are the priorities, do you think, may have led to higher travel captain of Cricket South Africa to lock your personal journey into the iceberg of corruption, yes, I'm talking the late Hansie Cronje. No, Mullah behind the curtains can not be the only force seductive leads to the disappearance of these carvings high.

Living and dead legends of almost every kind of sport have one or more times across the LOC. Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson, Diego Maradona, Marion Jones and George Best, intentionally or unintentionally fell prey to one of them: drugs, match fixing, violence against the opposite sex, alcohol, gambling, white collar crime and the list goes on.

Professor Sandy Gordon, a popular sports psychologist in Western Australia, has tried to find an answer to these questions. He developed a theory, a set of questionnaires called Hogan Development Survey [HDS], to study the traits of a person and changes during stress. The HDS shows traits of a man referred to as "the dark side of the personality" which has great influence on our decision making under pressure. The process shows features that are generally tolerated, also surrendered, but when tempted with the opportunity, can derail. Personality traits scale of a range that includes such diverse types (still near point) as "colors", "bold", "Wicked." Naughty and Bold are most evident in the entertainment industry as artists have booed performances in sport, often called "characters" in our terminology of cricket.

Different people from different backgrounds behave differently to the same or similar situations. Nobody can explain this idea better than Yasser Hameed, Zulqarnain Haider and Herschelle Gibbs, three men, whose careers are more or less long, thanks to his antics off the field and special revelations (each in his way.) If Herschelle Gibbs showed signs of a complete asshole with his war of words against Mickey Arthur and put all the speculation following the reactivation of its something-over cricket career deathbed, a little more attentive to their counterparts in Pakistan reached pedestals higher than the stupidity of special occasions (as to make it stand out from the rest). Yasir Hameed was caught on tape in a matter of days, after three of his teammates were suspended for match-fixing reasons, vent out, without any inhibitions on the depth of the roots of corruption in The sport has spread, especially among their national teammates. And the instance of Zulqarnain Haider, Pakistan's substitute goalkeeper in the absence of Kamran Akmal, plagued by poor form and behavior, can be termed as one of the most peculiar cases of 'code of conduct "by cricketers. Haider As we all know by now, had left his team in the middle of a tour in progress, only to be found (sneaking into forbidden land God knows what) at London's Heathrow Airport. He cited the reason for his sudden disappearance as bookmakers approach that tried to attract their ingenuity. Not only has his action inflicted shame PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board) and his nation, but in the whole world cricket. As for the latest updates, Haider is close to signing a contract with lashings, part of the English county.

If we turn the pages of sports history to glorify and take a closer look has always been clear that the best are the worst, the best on the court and the worst of it. In one of the most recent chapters, Tiger Woods describes what life was like in the world of elite sport: "I thought I could get away with everything I wanted, deserve to enjoy all the temptations around me I was right .. Thanks to money and fame did not have to go far to find them. "These were their answers to the questions" Why? "" Why? " and "What were you thinking? "And this corrupt world of elite sport extends beyond our imagination insignificant. Sport had reported several months ago that only very few major sports remained free of corruption. Financial services Merrill Lynch has predicted that the game industry online is going to be worth $ 100 million in 2015.

The temptations are offered in different forms and packages, but do not feed you, rather the parasite that resides in you, "the powerful appeal." But decoy for what? Only money? Only by the greed of it? It may be the answer is a vague no. Ace tennis player Nikolay Davydenko, in 2007, was accused of having thrown a relatively easy game (that could have been a cinch for him) against the 87th seed Martin Vassallo-Arguello, after meeting some bookies. Davydenko, later stated that it is all about money, but the powerful ring around it. But the sport has been able to maintain their dignity rather well, thanks to the proactive nature of the tennis authorities.

Following in his footsteps, one of the largest associations in the world of soccer, UEFA, has launched a probe against 40 Champions League matches last year, UEFA and the UEFA Europa League. And these are difficult times for the FIFA when two of its members have been proven guilty of being bribed to support the U.S. offer to host the FIFA World Cup in 2022. This shows that the ball does not stop with the only players, but the law is broken by those who protect and care for themselves.

Many psychologists and doctors and legends and you know that from all areas now or later, will always have something to say about the mentality of athletes, where the offense bookish popular term (confined in the books) "code of behavior. " Some can do with lust, greed, some by the temptation of power, or some simply by being bigger than life. But the ultimate consequences of these incidents, gaining in frequency of occurrence, hits hardest at the fans, ie you and me.

Gone with the wind are the days when sports to fans like me, was an epitome of the definition of discipline, honor, pride, passion, integrity and, above all, the purest form of being clean . In today's date, when the world, in a sense, anticipated in 2012 Dooms Day or any time before or after, I can foresee my religion being abandoned by semi-gods and preached with the money of drug trafficking.

In days of such an atrocity, I have a vision, a nightmare. With a full 60.000 which encourages the tone of their voices while running from their path to hit the man, who can not be sure it will not be able to deal with the situation between him and fear the gates, look for him in his face, it will not be able to look inside yourself and say, yes, I deserve to be here.

We hate to see this, but yes, it's time for the red card out of the bag! Time for a new dawn.

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