Issues in Sports
Issue in Sport: The Ethical and Legal Sport is a big phenomenon of today, it is a very important part of today life. However, sport has it contradictory phenomenon. It is connected to big humanistic values and it formats life and billions of people on the one side. It is also connected with dirty business, to name one, corruption. Corruption is sport should be matter of concern. This is a high issue and a challenge if it is not deal properly. To prevent and eliminating corruption, it is important to know the scope of corruption areas where it occurs. It is important to know where corruption is always performed. In Malaysia, one can say the popular one is in football. Football is one of national sport in Malaysia even though the team never reaches Olympic yet, but still, it has a lot of fans that passion and addicted to this sport. In foreign countries, such as United States and Europe, athletes are idols and superheroes to the sports fan. Besides becoming superheroes, the athletes are also millionaires and some are billionaires. Fans attend or watch games because they love the team. If one player is a star or key player on a sports team, they might get paid more than other players. If one player helps the team to victory which causes the team to sell more tickets, then the player earns higher salary then some of the others. So, this is how some athletes get paid so much in other countries. The examples are Tiger Wood who gets paid $127 million a year and also football star David Beckham gets paid $42.8 million a year. Here in Malaysia, the professional athletes’ salaries are a lot less than that. It may be equaled or less than the earning of other professional job such as lawyers and engineer. The recession happens nowadays, the commitments and late payment of the football club may be the factors of this scenery according to NSC director, Mr Zulkeples (2008). Rewinding what happen back in 1990’s and 2008, is the low salary of the athletes lead to corruption,