Football is a game that is played for pleasure, pa sion and the love for the game in its early days. The game has turned into a busine s where people take football as a profe sion and busine s men invest millions of dollars to lure people around the world to play for them. Europe is known to be the continent where such busine s begun and still growing at a faster rate, people therefore
DeAndre Jordan Jersey move all over the world to play in Europe.Kevin Prince Boateng: a recent victim of racismFootballers all over the world from Africa, Asia, South America and the North America will leave their homes to play in Europe for greener pastures and play in the competitive league like the UEFA Champions league, English league, Spanish league and the others. South America is known to be the continent that produces the best of talents with Brazil and Argentina dominating the continent as well as the world. The world best player award since its inception in the early 90s was dominated by South Americans like Ronaldo (3 times), Romario (1), Rivaldo (1), Ronaldinho (2), Me si (3), and Kaka (1). Africa has won it once by the George Wear in 1995 and since then African players made great contribution in European football through the likes of
Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot Jersey Etoo, Drogba, E sien, Okocha, Abedi and so on.Racism comes as a result of abuse of a player, fan or official because of their skin color, religion, nationality or ethnicity. Racism is all over the
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