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Soccer is anything but nowadays.
The world's most popular sport used to be about who scored the most goals, thrilled the fans and won the top titles. Now international soccer is plagued by cheats, drugs, hooliganism, racism, embarrassing blow outs and most recently, tragedy. Keith Cooper, spokesman for FIFA, soccer's world governing body, acknowledged the sport has seen better days. Any activity as widespread and diverse as football involving so many people in so many countries is bound to throw up a few situations, some of them less comfortable than others. Most of the problems result from the sport's own popularity.