The FIFA has issued a warning to the Brazilian Football Association for their post-match celebration at the Confederation Cup as the team gather on the field for a collective prayer celebrating their victory over the Americans in the final. However no actions are to be taken against the players.
“Religion doesn’t belong on a football pitch… mixing religion to football is like creating a religious gathering”, declared Jim Stjerne Hansen, director of the Danish federation. The same way that we can’t let politics enter football stadiums,

Religious celebrations give head aches to the FIFA.
religion has to remain separated from the football, added Hansen.
The Brazilian Church Renascer, to which Kaká is a member, reacted saying that the measure taking by the FIFA is questionable and hypocrite. You can’t stop someone from pointing his finger to the sky to thank God as KaKá did, that would be a prejudiced, mentioned Marli Goncalved representative of the catholic institution.
The Sao Paulo Church also criticized the decision stating that being grateful to God can’t and will never be prohibited.
The controversy has just started and we might not see the end anytime soon.
SOURCE: El Mercurio
by: Pascal Mathieu (thesportszone@santiagoradio.cl)





you can try as much as you would like to muzzled the beast but you wont be able to contain it forever…
It’s the same with religion !!!
We eat, we drink, we respond to cold, to pain ….. and we pray. In the Free World, let people be free to express what they feel and believe in.
I have no problem with that, but when it comes to religion, it’s touchy. Same with politics….sports is sports so don’t mix it with religious or political issues.