2024-03-27 03:01:00
Argentine sport 2024 began with too many disorders that do not allow you to glimpse a clear horizon. And in an Olympic year, concerns are even greater about what it may do not only to high performance, but also to to the formative and the social.
The new Government made the decision to reduce budgets for this portfolio, and to this is added the layoffs decided for the employees of the National High Performance Sports Center (Cenard). The pyramid, which had already been held up with fragility, It began to completely break down.
The organization Athletes from the Popular Field (DdCP) was activated to find a way out of this situation, and from that place they provide proposals to support the sports system from all areas.
The Board met this week at the headquarters of the Physical Education Teachers Association (Adef), to meet and debate the current context, and value the role of athletes in sports policy. With a multisectoral and broad conception, against individualism, they seek unity and generate the necessary networks to empower sport in public policies.
Among those present were Monica Santino and Facundo Diz (football), Laura Martinel (judo), Denis Turnes (taekwondo), Sergio Turiace (fencing), Juan Manuel Gauna (parish clubs), Paul Pascualini (swimming), Adriana Zilber (Adef volleyball), Esteban Símaro (volleyball). The reference for the space is Jon Emili Uriarte, Olympic medalist and former coach of the Australian and Argentine Volleyball teams.
Uriarte precisely, he expressed that “no initiative emerges in favor of sport and athletes. What they show is how they are focused on appropriating the businesses generated by sport. The only interest is the introduction of Sports Joint Stock Companies (SAD) that, if it happens, it will demolish the bonding and emotional paradigm of Argentine clubs.”
Turnes, legal advisor of Adef, whom he thanked for hosting the conclave, indicated that “the right to sport is defended, as a human right, as social transformation. We have to organize ourselves so that sport has its place within politics.” For his part, Martinel, who was a coach Paula Pareto, winner of the gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, pointed out that “they help no one reach high performance, and staying there is very hard. There is a lot of individualism and it becomes every man for himself. There is no containment network, because down below, in the bases, there is nothing. “That’s where we have to work.”
Meanwhile, Diz, former professional soccer player and current mayor of the Navarro party, He maintained that “young people must be instilled with sports at an early age. I believe that schools should implement double schooling, with sports activity for several hours in the afternoon”.
The Board expressed its concern about the absence of public policies in favor of sports, the cancellation of programs aimed at neighborhood clubs; and gave his warning for the arrears in the payment of scholarships to competitors and salaries to coaches, technicians and doctors.