FIFA Needs To 'Say No To Transphobia/Homophobia', Too

http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/07/fifa-needs-to-say-no-to.html
7/5/11
Monica Roberts

Football, or soccer as we call it in the US, Canada and Australia is the world's most popular sport.  Its organizing body FIFA is charged with not only managing and growing the game, but dealing with the problems that crop up in conjunction with doing so. 

One of the blemishes on what is called 'the beautiful game' is racism and discrimination and FIFA has been on the forefront of combating the issue.   In 1961 it expelled South Africa from the organization for its apartheid policies, and thirty years later readmitted it when Nelson Mandela was released from prison and subsequently became president a few years later.

Unfortunately, a lot of the 'fans' who are most vocal and pro-active with their bigoted behaviour and derogatory slurs have relatively little interest in, and don't actually go to football matches in order to watch 'the beautiful game', at least in the UK. That's not their primary goal, excuse the pun.