The interested parties generate alarm for sports betting between players

The need to face a growing concern issued by sports betting between some of our young talented athletes cannot be emphasized. Students revealed that young talented athletes are gradually dominating the market space on sports gambling/betting especially in the world of football. This growing concern is worrying and asks for an urgent step to face the threat.

Sports gambling/betting;

This has to do with a prediction of the sport results and to make a bet on the result. Game sports /betting in football involve the prediction of the results of football matches, also the scores in half time and the margin. The sports that bets and gambling are gradually that sports are the facts of sports. Risking behavior apart from the fact that weakens athletes emotionally and mentally, helps to compromise the integrity of any sporting competition that provides for the image of sports for lack of lack.

Vulnerability discovered.

According to A Study Published by Eu Athletes in 2016. Professional Athletes are many Times More Likely to Develop A Gambling /Betting Addiction This Non Athletes. Because they worked in Environments Where isolation is frequent, Largely two intensive training program as well as attending trays and in Such a Manner, Gambling/Betting Can Styx A Form of Escape or Entertainment.Nother Factor to vulnerability is less attention to Athletes Welfare System, compromised by the owners of clubs and administrators who lead to a bad treatment of athletes, social media and other digital networks that have contributed to exposing the presence and high connectivity in the game of ator. sporting and bets through the advertising of sports betting that tends to normalize the practice and making it strongly accessible to athletes.

Consequences of sports gambling/ betting

The consequences are enormous. Athletes are affected, the sports teams and the owner of the club, as well as the sports /football federations are affected, therefore it is considered a sick wind that does not drive anyone crazy. of relegations and failures. And for sports federations, the image and reputation of sports are brought in the absence of devaluation. Added, the game standard involved will begin to fall, thus reducing the assessments that influence the economic and sponsorship values.

Causes of sports gambling /betting by athletes.

Studies conducted on this show that most athletes become vulnerable in the fields due to the pressures between equal due to low self -esteem, the search to be famous and to become rich rapid, drops in sport management and gaps, external pressures on athletes in meeting expectations. This came from family members, family members and relatives among others.

Because education /mental health interface for athletes is necessary

Mental health is a state of mental well -being that allows you to cope with the stress of life, to work and be able to remain productive, as well as contributing to the community, family and its organization. This means that generally means that an athlete who can no longer make you live productively. They could have problems that influence its mental and emotional strength deriving from poor well -being, a little management of athletes, external pressures by the family, friends and loved ones, among others. These and others can make athletes vulnerable and can present them with a meeting with the Schian of mental Siertà, which will be ovorously for an excellent mental health game. Psychosocial commitment structured and oriented towards results to maintain problems regarding the changes of behavior.

Mental health implications of sports gambling /betting on athletes

Sports Athletes are made more vulnerable as he jets on board Into the business of gambling and betting .sometimes he suffers loss and sometimes he wins in His Gambling/Betting.the time of loss prevention him to the point of vulnerability because he like to stay with money money and he needed to live and to play Next Game .this Hower Takes Him Straight to the Searching of Alternative WHICH USUALLY TAKES THEM TO ACT THAT MOTIATS OFFENDING (Criminal Behaviour) in The Camp, Selling of Confidential information in terms of physical conditions of teammates, team strategies, strength and weakness of the opponent and collecting to live and do its own bets and satisfy other financial needs.

The conditions presented by deficiencies and failures in winning combined with other emotional and mental struggles deriving from the screams and treatment it receives could trigger a low self -esteem, stress, burnout, anxiety, concern and in the end they could throw it into depression due to dissatisfied expectations. These behaviors affect brain functions and can trigger the neurocognitive decline of these overall athletes.

What can we do

The need to be intentional by sports administrators, managers, sports federations in the club owners to ensure that all clubs or sports teams, units, clubs and fields that have athletes in progress must have the services of a certified and trained mental practitioner for its potential in general and its enhancement for the well -being and its management of its training, therefore its protection by a navigation in general and its assistance training and its assistance booklet for wellness and its booklet. Gambling, betting and other correlated anti -social behaviors that can be seen among athletes. This approach without a doubt, will face vulnerability and help to make managers responsible and sensitive to the difficult situation of athletes.

Another important aspect is that the betting or betting sector or operators should be done to avoid normalizing gambling and bets by limiting advertisements aimed at young athletes. The time for the interested parties to meet to face the concern caused by the gambling and bets by the athletes who are now all the teams, the teams have suffered teams who have suffered teams who suffered from teams who suffered teams who suffered from teams who have suffered teams who suffered teams suffered teams who have been the teams who have suffered teams who have suffered a team Team who suffered teams who suffered teams who suffered teams who suffered from teams who suffered teams who suffered teams who suffered from teams who suffered from teams that have suffered teams.

The coach of the writer Ebere Amraiizu graduated from the National Institute for Sports (NIS) and cognitive therapy coach of cognitive behavior (CBT). He is also a sports administrator and manager of the International Olympic/Olympic Committee Nigeria and who acts as a main consultant at Cope and Live Mental Health Awareness Foundation.


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