Football lacks authenticity and to convey this, two teams of footballers in Germany played a match wearing just their socks and boots. The naked game held in the town of Oer-Erckenschwick, Stimberg Stadium was organised to protest the commercialization of football. This was the third-ever Naked football match organised by artist Gerrit Starczewski.
'The football system is sick, and that's why we all get naked', he said. "Everybody wants to have authenticity. But I think you are only particularly authentic if you do without all the other stuff, really everything, from the advertising banners to the clothing," Starczewski told sports magazine 11Freunde ahead of the match.
It also comes weeks after Swiss prosecutors have launched a criminal probe against the head of football's governing body (FIFA) for alleged "rampant, systemic, deep-rooted" corruption.
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