“I don’t join much and spend only 50 baht for only to relax from stress. Some are hunger for huge amount of money and finally they have got big amount of dept.”
“I’ve lost around 30,000 baht and recovered by my parents who had to sell partial rice fields. I join football gambling for fun and it’s difficult for me to quit.”
These sentences are from teenagers express their experiences and pinion toward “Football Gambling” which has been wide spreading among youths.
It’s acceptable that “Football” is the most popular sport and has the largest numbers of players and viewers in the world. It always gets the attention from its viewers when the match begins such English Premiership, German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A, Spanish Liga and French ligue 1. These matches are being waited for by huge groups of teenagers in everywhere because there are many favorite and famous players of theirs fight for the champions.
As this situation exists, the terrible cycle has begun when football gambling has been introduced in our society. It is a social problem which remains and effects directly to students in every level who tend to pay more attention on this, especially boys and men. It is the cause of studying ignorance. Some has become male sex workers. Some commit crimes. Some have to quit their study and escape because of big dept amount.
Some have to ask for their poor family to help by selling their farmland.
I am not gambling lovers myself but I have experienced those situations from people around me. Most of them are my friends and classmates in university. Then I keep thinking as below questions.
Why the situation is like this?
What’s wrong with Thai male teens nowadays?
What are the causes of football gambling?
Is media the most influence channel to their behaviors?
How to avoid and deal with football gambling?
Come and Share your ideas! PLEASE!!!!
-----> Suwinai
