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FIFA wanted to increase compliance with its regulations and pursue investigations where players insult each other under FIFA Disciplinary Code Article 54. How would you advise FIFA to accomplish this?

A story occurred in July 2006, where Zinedine Zidaine, a hugely popular French football player butted his competitor during the World Cup match in Berlin. Zidaine won and was acclaimed as a hero in his country but, within two days of the World Cup final, FIFA announced that disciplinary proceedings against Zidaine had begun and that his action could not go unnoticed. FIFA's president announced that Zidaine may have to return the Golden Ball award. The roots of the problem, however, were not so clear: Zidaine's opponent, the Italian Materazzi had taunted Zidaine on his roots and family and had insulted him (Babson).

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The FIFA Disciplinary Code Article 54 prohibits players from insulting one another. Insults often lead into violence and cannot be ignored. Zidaine may not have been as guilty as portrayed. FIFA had to take Materazzi's insult into consideration, too.

Partially as result of the march, FIFA passed new regulations to control contemptuous behavior of one player to another. Sanctions were the following:

Article 55, paragraph 1 … stipulates a match suspension of five matches at every level of football as well as a stadium ban and a minimum fine of CHF 20,000 for any act or expression of a discriminatory and/or contemptuous nature. If an official commits such an offence, the fine will be CHF 30,000. (FIFA.com)

Furthermore, if the contemptuous behavior….....

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