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Global Health Economics and
Sustainability
Promoting peace through microbiology and sports

tolerate their differences creates a peaceful environment Entrepreneurs need peace and health to do effective
for winning; these are applicable to human lives. entrepreneurship; their customers also need to be healthy
Without peaceful team members, maintaining team unity in a peaceful environment to do business without fear.
is difficult. Nations with mixed races in international soccer No profession/athlete practices preventive medicine and
have been sending beautiful messages globally worthy of curative health more than footballers. Applying unity and
emulating. They do not normally allow their racial differences health-conscious behaviors of footballers creates unity and
to affect their performances (Sportnewsafrica.com., 2022). a peaceful and healthy environment for global businesses/
The message from their admirable performances is that economic growth.
forsaking our differences, there is nothing that we cannot Every success is preparation, which goes with “self-
achieve. This unity helped the world contain COVID-19. assessment.” Using “self-assessment” inbuilt in it helps
With the exception of only two nations, nations correct mistakes for success (Burrows, 2018). This is how
with mixed races who qualified for the global football using yellow/red cards originated. Introducing red/yellow
competition have been victorious (Historyofsoccer.info, cards in football was done not only to protect players’
2023; Table 3). As of now, Brazil, which is one of the health but to promote peaceful football matches. From past
national teams with mixed races, is the dominant winner experiences, players were frequently injured. In the 1966
in the “FIFA” World Cup’s history. Like infectious diseases England FIFA World Cup, confusion emerged between
that do not discriminate, they normally give no room players and referees (Historyofsoccer.info, 2023).
for discrimination, so white players are seen passing the The “Argentina and England” match led to too
“football” to Black players just like the Blacks also do. aggressive players, resulting in some being expelled.
There would be no best goal scorer, too, without these A heated misunderstanding emerged between “two
inbuilt attributes of the game (Table 5). players” of each national team and the referee. When the
The same could be said about nations with their players could not understand Ken Aston’s verbal warning,
national football teams being mixed races. This beautiful
revelation agrees with current results where the most A
dominant nations in the current FIFA World Cup’s history
are national teams with mixed races (Table 3). In the recent
Qatar’s FIFA World Cup, 14 nations had mixed-race players
(Sportnewsafrica.com., 2022). One of these (France), the
2018 FIFA World Cup champion, played competitive finals
again.

Table 5. Current top 12 male football goal scorers as of 2022
History Player’s name Player’s Scores Matches
nation played
1. Cristiano Ronaldo Portugal 118 196
2. Ali Daei Iran 109 148 B
3. Lionel Messi Argentina 98 172
4. Mokhtar Dahari Malaysia 89 142
5. Ferenc Puskas Hungary 84 85
6. Sunil Chhetri India 84 131
7. Ali Mabkhout United Arab 80 109
Emirates
8. Godfrey Chitalu Zambia 79 111
9. Hussein Saeed Iraq 78 137
10. Robert Lewandowski Poland 78 138
11. Pele Brazil 77 92
12. Neymar Brazil 77 124
Figure 8. (A and B) The daily decisions that people make could be their
Source: Retrieved from (Johnson, 2023; Knight, 2023; Icehockeyuk. sources of hatred. Source: Adapted from Ben Pulle’s Peace Designs,
co.uk., 2022). created using Microsoft PowerPoint.

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