[HN Gopher] Uefa warns teams could be fined if they move drinks ...
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Uefa warns teams could be fined if they move drinks at news
conferences
Author : aliasEli
Score : 38 points
Date : 2021-06-17 22:15 UTC (45 minutes ago)
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| groby_b wrote:
| It'd be lovely to see that Naomi Osaka wasn't a one-off, and that
| athletes are taking back control. Hoping the drinks get moved
| again, and then Uefa can find out how well soccer works without
| the players if they want.
| heyheyhey wrote:
| > then Uefa can find out how well soccer works without the
| players if they want.
|
| Then the players can find out that they're making less money
| due to less sponsorships.
| void_mint wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxRstOVEiZ0
|
| This concept is just so hilarious.
| pokoleo wrote:
| I'm just here so I won't get fined.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1kvwXsZtU8
| murat131 wrote:
| If you can't move the bottles just move your chair and problem
| solved.
| colechristensen wrote:
| Must everything in the world be done to benefit advertising?
|
| It's like the dystopic version of a dystopia, not even some evil
| entity or philosophy shaping the world, it's just people
| promoting shit for pennies. The real evil is extraordinarily
| mundane.
|
| How do you change it? Heavy taxes on ad revenue that favor other
| forms of funding?
| aliasEli wrote:
| Long, long time ago, sports was about the game. Now it appears to
| be all about sponsors.
| MisterBastahrd wrote:
| Long, long time ago, athletes played for a season and then
| earned a living at their actual careers. It _is_ all about
| sponsors if athletes want to make the money they 've grown
| accustomed to.
| forgotmysn wrote:
| TV changed everything. There were some clubs in England that
| protested TV broadcasts of games entirely because they were
| afraid it would devalue the game-day and club experience.
| Perhaps they were right.
| dmitrygr wrote:
| It is startling to have UEFA admit this in the open. I would have
| expected this to be whispered into the appropriate ears, not
| announced aloud like this.
|
| Admitting how controlled you are by your sponsors is not a good
| look for anybody, no?
| MisterBastahrd wrote:
| Did the jerseys and stadiums covered by advertisements and
| logos not clue people in?
| adamcstephens wrote:
| I feel like this being in the open is par for course nowadays.
| Sponsors, and indirectly through the broadcasters, hold
| enormous power over modern sports. Coca-Cola is spending some
| millions of dollars on this campaign, and it's a bad look when
| the players actively diminish their product. Ronaldo is one of
| the most popular players in the world, if not the most, and
| kids look up to him. They can't have this, and I'm sure execs
| were immediately calling their buddies at UEFA.
|
| I side with Ronaldo, drink more water and not the sugary stuff.
| squiggleblaz wrote:
| > Admitting how controlled you are by your sponsors is not a
| good look for anybody, no?
|
| I think it's especially good for the public to know that the
| choice of beverage on the table reflects advertising payments,
| not player desire.
| ska wrote:
| Is this really control by the sponsors ? Or did they sell this
| to the sponsors without consulting players?
| falcolas wrote:
| And here I thought we'd have a good chuckle and move along. More
| the fool, me.
| dragosmocrii wrote:
| $4 billions in lost market capitalization for KO, pretty sure
| there were some calls made in the following days after the
| incident
| tester756 wrote:
| >Uefa has reminded participating teams that partnerships are
| integral to the delivery of the tournament and to
|
| >ensuring the development of football across Europe, including
| for youth and women
|
| how does that "development" even look in reality?
| slipframe wrote:
| > _" partnerships are integral to [...] ensuring the
| development of football across Europe [...] for youth"_
|
| This part is laughable horse shit. You don't need corporate
| sponsors to give some kids a $10 ball. Nor do you need
| corporate sponsors even for a field for them to run around in;
| school taxes or local funding for public parks have that
| covered. No corporate partnerships were ever involved when I
| played this game as a kid.
| tyingq wrote:
| Oof. There's also a wall covered in 60+ sponsor logos behind
| Ronaldo.
| underseacables wrote:
| I bet Ronaldo will move the drinks again, and I think he should.
| Without the players there is no game.
| stanislavb wrote:
| Oh, I so much hope you are right and he does that. It'd be so
| fun. In the end of the day, even if they fine him, that will
| increase his personal brand value :D
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| bellyfullofbac wrote:
| Well he's got the clout that UEFA don't dare be tough with him,
| if he gets mad the backlash against UEFA and Coca-Cola will be
| even greater, and the PR consultants working for them know
| this...
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