22/4/2010
Statement by the Chairman
We have to start from one point: we care about the spread of sport practice to all the population
Here we publish some extracts of Filippo Fossati’s speech during the Top Political Leader Meeting, held in Copenaghen on 5th and 6th March: “One premise – ISCA Europe president said - we have to start from one point: we care about the spread of sport practice to all the population because we think that physical activity is a very important part of people’s life project to be healthy and to prevent disease, and we believe in the social role of sportforall, as a factor of good human relationships, integration, social inclusion, as a tool to promote environmental best practices, as a resource for a sustainable development”.
Filippo Fossati ISCA Europe Chairman
“Considering this premise, we think that the spread of sportforall should count on big associative networks, volunteers’ engagement and the capacity of people to get self organized”.
“Some significant remarks: - Fossati continued - public funding on sportforall encourages families’ participation of households and makes increase private investments and the total time of voluntary work. When public funding becomes scarcer, the flow of funding goes to elite sport. In spite of all the efforts of the speakers, solidarity payments into sports world between rich disciplines with high visibility and grassroots sports appears scarce and not relevant. Our criticism to the European model of sport pyramid appears strengthened by this analysis”.
“These are our consequent proposals - Fossaticoncluded - More public investments targeted to specific objectives. Calculate the economical safe on the health national system, the safe produced by both environmental and energetic best practices, by the retraining of the cities in the sign of the movement, the safe produced by social sport used as tool of intervention to deal with the social disease. We ask for a new phase of selective investments, verifiable in terms of results, available for the Sport for all networks in the framework of a new European Welfare”.
