"Sport in Italy, numbers and context", data presented
The document "Lo sport in Italia. Numeri e contesto" ("Sport in Italy. Numbers and context") created by CONI Centro Studi has been presented this morning at the Salone d'Onore. The in-depth analysis in collaboration with Istat has analysed not only the monitoring of 2013 data but also the results of the census data about no-profit organizations and the multi-objective survey carried out on families. CONI President Giovanni Malagò has welcomed the people attending at the presence of ISTAT President Antonio Golini and Central Director of census and ISTAT statistical registers Manlio Calzaroni. CONI General Director and CONI Centro Studi Manager Michele Uva was also among the speakers.
Malagò has opened the press conference highlighting the importance of data in order to understand the state of the sport movement in the country. "Centro Studi is a key reference, for any necessity, it means credibility. We must explain the data, understand how we are and who we are, what is happening in our context. These are numbers in evolution and in a few cases there is also an involution. This documents is a fundamental mirror, certified by a partner which is the master in this field: ISTAT has gone further, widening its perspective on no-profit. Talking about sport, not about other activities, is key and it is also essential to read the data also from the point of view of facilities. For such reason I urged to create a map, as without a clear vision of which and how many facilities there are, also looking at their position, it is difficult to take action. Sport offers the opportunity to reverse the unemployment trend starting from data."
ISTAT Presient Antonio Golini has widened this concept: "Sport is one of the most important values of humanity and the degree of participation of the population in physical activities is one of the parameters that helps tracing the cultural and social profile of the country, allowing also to monitor the level of inactivity of people. We want to continue this collaboration with CONI in order to enhance the information wealth, preserving the quality and the periodicity of statistical data. We are planning a new sample survey devoted to spare time and to culture, with a new census in 2015, also in order to quantify the added value generated by sport and estimate the whole amount of economic relationships."
General Director of census and ISTAT statistical registers Manlio Calzaroni has offered instead the data of "no-profit in sport". "The no-profit institutions are 92.838, corresponding to 30,8% of no-profit institutions surveyed. More than six sport institutions of 10 have been born in the last decade (+61,5% compared to the year 2000). 6.800 of those who have offered its own services to disadvantaged people. In this sector, one million volunteer is active (92,2% of the human resources employed), 13.000 subordinated workers and 75.000 external workers, most of them of young age: 23,7% is under 30. Athletes, trainers, escorts and instructors are 61.000. This sector has raised 5% of the total no-profit compared to the year 1999, while the amount of sport institutions formed in the last decade has raised more than 60%. In this sector a million volunteers, 13.000 subordinated workers and 75.000 external workers is active. The level of members participation is high, about 75% of the total amount."
Coni Servizi General Director Michele Uva has closed his presentation, illustrating thoroughly the data connected to the monitoring carried out by CONI on the National sport system. "Together with Centro Studi, we have brought an objective contained in the President's program into reality. Numbers rule the world, Platone said, but we have to analyze and cross-analyze them, this is our aim. From this study, it comes out that there are more than 4.500.000 of Italian athletes (31% more than 2003) with a membership by organizations recognized by CONI, while there are a million of sport operators (sport and federal directors, technicians and competition officials) and 64.829 sport associations. Such numbers are still growing and growing: 3,6% is growth of sport associations in a decade, 1,6% the one related to the sport operators. Athletes with a membership under 18 is 54%. 30% is between 8 and 13, while 25% is over 36. The percentage of people not practising sport is 42%, but people practising continously have been growing up to 30%. This is the starting point to understand the movement, also on a social level, and to evaluate all the necessary initiatives in order to obtain the most ambitious objectives."
Open Day for the Olympic Management course. Malagò: "New professionals are essential"
A didactic project in order to train future sport directors: the Open Day of the course of Olympic Management organized by CONI School of Sport has been presented this morning at the Sala della Scherma (Fencing Room) in the Acquacetosa Olympic Preparation Centre. The objectives of this initiative have been illustrated by CONI President Giovanni Malagò, Coni Servizi CEO Alberto Miglietta, by School of Sport Director Rossana Ciuffetti, the President of the Scientific Committee Antonello Bernaschi e the former long jump champion and CONI Board member Fiona May.
The course is addressed to young graduated people with the aim to prepare them for an immediate access to the labour market through the acquisition of competences as well as relation and team work abilities: it will be characterized by 12 modules with obligatory attendance for a total of 350 hours of lessons.
President Malagò has opened the works offering a good interpretation of the project: "I think it is a fundamental course for the times we are living in, thus I would like to thank the School of Sport who has been able to play its role decoding the current difficulties and the necessities of the market. We are in a context of chrisis that has been going on for too long and to leave it behind ideas and initiatives trying to change this trend of youth unemployment afre needed. As CONI President I have a very strong moral duty to lend a hand to help my country. My first mission is maybe before winning a gold medal at the Olympic Games to satisfy what the market is asking for. The method is to bring people where the world is going, i.e. new jobs. We must invent something."
Coni Servizi CEO Alberto Miglietta has highlighted the centrality of School of Sport in CONI strategies. "The wide sharing of this event testifies its importance and confirms the efforts of Coni Servizi to fullfil CONI objectives. The school is an investment for our know how to trasmit it to young people, working as a team and making the most relevant competences available in order to develop the didactic modules. Building the future of those who will be close to us and then will substitute us is a challenge. We have chosen the Sala della Scherma because in order to become directors we must start from the gyms, from the field, as this room where so many successes of Italian sport have been built can testify."
Rossana Ciuffetti, Director of the School of Sport, has thanked the numerous people attending and Coni Servizi General Director of Coni Servizi Michele Uva, who has supported the project. "A cycle of renewal is taking place, which started one year ago in order to make the School closer and closer to sport and open to the necessities of the marker. This course is requested by the new issues, because sport must drive the economy of the country, investing in the training of the future management bench. This is a team work that will allow the young students to carry out a stage in CONI facilities, thanks to the plan created by the Scientific Committee of which I am part of, lead by the Antonello Bernaschi and also composed by Michele Uva, Valeria Panzironi, Mario Nicoliello and Alberto Acciari."
Antonello Bernaschi, as Scientific Committee President, has gone into details regarding the course: "The didactic modules are 12 and mirror the complexity of the National sport system. In addition to the contents, we are willing to transmit values, and not to build bureaucrates. Those who make sport have passion and can transmit emotions. CIO President Thomas Bach has recently remembered that in 100 years of history CONI has represented a model because of high level directors. We want to go on feeding this tradition."
Fiona May has given a picture of the athletes' point of view. "I want to invest in my future, devoting myself to the world who acclaimed me. It is fundamental to make sport and also specialization: this course represents at last an opportunity to teach to the youngest ones." The lessons will be divided in 18 weeks full time, from the 14th of October, 2014, to the 5th of March, 2015, with a final entrance examination to access the stage, which will be composed of 300 hours until August 2015.
Aurora Tognetti flag bearer in Youth Olympic Games
Aurora Tognetti will be flag bearer of Italy in the next Youth Olympic Games of Nanjing 2014.
National Council communication
The 235th CONI National Council has gathered today at 3:00 pm at the Foro Italico, in order ro debate the following work schedule:
1) Approval of the minutes of the 11th of June 2014 meeting: the minutes have been approved unanimously.
2) President communications: the President has opened the works appointing the Gold Star (Stella d'Oro) to Andrea Gios, new FISG President, and greeting the new heads of sport justice authority, Franco Frattini, President of the Disciplinary Board, and Enrico Castaldi, new General Sport Prosecutor.Next, the protagonists of the agonistic world passed away in the last month have been greeted and at the same time the relevant results obtained in the same period have been remembered. Malagò have then dealt with the subject of Sport Credit, while waiting for the appointment of the top management: he has restated his appreciation for Giancarlo Abete's behaviour, calm and dignified, after the elimination of Italy in the World Football Championships in Brazil, underlining how CONI – after his resignation – is asking for a widely shared solution about the new presidency. The designation of Ugo Claudio Martelli as Hockey Federation Commissioner has been therefore made official at the National Council, after the resignation by Luca Di Mauro. Then, the forming of a commission about the study of the reforms to carry out has been announced, in order to razionalize the organization of the federations and associated sport disciplines, following a cost containment policy. Recently, the 2013 data related to antidoping have been presented: Italy is fifth in the world as far as antidoping controls and positivity cases is concerned, CONI invests two millions per year for such activities.
Malagò has then announced the formal ending of motor literacy, underlining the undeferrable necessity of a new interaction with the school world , using the 10 millions allocated annually in order to study a new format that will be called "Sport di classe" ("Class sport"). The President has also informed the Council that the potentials of the new logo are at the centre of fruitful merchandising activities which have already started. In addition, the focus on the outline law, where the reform of law 91 is foreseen, has been reaffirmed. In September, finally, potential news about the Olympic application of Italy will be discussed, even after the necessary in-depth analysis with the Government. Malagò has confirmed CONI great effort in such direction and also for the covering of the Tennis Centrale Stadium, so that it can become mutifunctional and can be used throughout the year. The President has then presented the remodulation of CONI budget and small modifications in order to implement the new sport justice code, embracing also a few suggestons and advices by the Federations, still within the empowerment independency of the Authority. Waiting for the next events (tomorrow the Open Day related to the High Specialization Olympic Management course and the presentation by CONI of the document "Lo sport in Italia. Numeri e contesto" ("Sport in Italy. Numbers and context"), in collaboration with Istat on Thursday), today Nanjing 2014 team lead by the standard bearer Aurora Tognetti has been presented. The communications have ended with the ammouncement of a few regulatory modifications related to the sport merits and with the presentation of CONI new website: the graphic and content restyling focuses on the sport events.
3) FNS-DSA-EPS activities: the following resolutions have been approved; 1) Italian Hockey Federation commissioning (Ugo Claudio Matteoli, who is the new Commissioner, abstained) 2) Modifications of the Sport Justice Code 3) Modification of sport justice principles 4) Regulation of the organization and functioning of the General Sport Prosecutor's Office (the last three resolutions approved with Giancarlo Abete's and Paolo Barelli's opposition vote).
4) Administrative affairs and 2013 CONI balance sheet: the first remodulation of the annual budget related to 2014 CONI management has been approved unanimously.
5) Miscellaneous: the following speakers have intervened on the various subjects: Riccardo Agabio (Gymnastics), Ugo Salines (Sport Promotion Authorities Representant), Andrea Mancino (Associated Sport Disciplines Representant), Giovanni Petrucci (Basketball), Orazio Arancio (Technical Representant), Paolo Sesti (Motorcycling), Vincenzo Manco (Sport Promotion Authorities Representant), Ugo Claudio Matteoli (Game fishing), Antonio Urso (Weightlifting), Giancarlo Abete (Football), Mauro Checcoli (Meritorious Associations), Luigi Musacchia (Sport Promotion Authorities Representant), Carlo Magri (Volleyball), Paolo Barelli (Swimming), Riccardo Fraccari (Baseball), Franco Frattini (Disciplinary Board President), Enrico Cataldi (General Prosecutor).
Having no other decision to adopt, the Council has ended its works at 5:15 pm
National Board communication
The 1026th meeting of the CONI National Board has taken place this morning at the Foro Italico, starting its works with the approval of the previous meeting minutes of the 11th of June. In his communications, President Malagò has started the meeting showing its full sharing and appreciation of Giancarlo Abete who resigned as FIGC President after the World Football Championships in Brazil. On its side, CONI will help the steps approaching the Elective Assembly already called for the 11th of August.
As far as the Italian Grass Hockey Association is concerned, the Board has accepted President Luca Di Mauro's resignation, who at the same time has requested the designation of a Special Commissioner through a letter.
After having heard the report of lawyer Alberto Angeletti on the administrative verifications carried out about the Federation, the Board has decided to appoint as Special Commissioner Ugo Claudio Matteoli (FIPSAS President) and as vice commissioners Pierluigi Matera (for the judicial-administrative side) and Giovanni Admo Rossi (for the sport side). A conference will take place on the 23rd of July at 12:30 pm in the Board Room (Sala Giunta) by CONI with the partecipation of Malagò, Di Mauro, Matteoli e Fabbricini. The new CONI website has been presented, having the focus of interest on the athletes and sport with more attention given to social media compared to the previous version. President Malagò has thanked Coninet for the technological assistance and the Press Office of CONI for the contents. A new work group has been nominated in order to understand and promote the world of Associated Sport Disciplines for any future network or integration. The group will be made up of Mario Pescante, Riccardo Fraccari, Alfio Giomi, Carlo Magri, Roberto Fabbricini, Marco Scolaris and Guido Valori. President Malagò has then proposed to the Board the appointment of Aurora Tognetti as standard bearer by the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing 2014. Tognetti has been presented tot the Board which has welcomed her with a warm applause. It is first time that a pentathlete has the role of standard bearer. The composition of the delegation to Nanjing has also been approved: Head of the delegation will be Vicepresident Giorgio Scarso and Vice Head of the delegation will be Alessandra Sensini. Head of the Mission will be Anna Riccardi. The team is made up of 69 athletes, 33 boys and 36 girls, eight more people compared to the previous edition of Singapore 2010. Finally, a resolution has been approved to be brought to the National Council about the first 2014 CONI budget remodulation. After examining a long series of other organizative and administrative subjects, and having approved the corresponding resolutions, the Board has ended its works at 1:00 pm.
National Board e National Council meeting take place on 15 July
The 1026nd meeting of the National Board of CONI will be held on 11 June 2014, in Rome at the Foro Italico, starting at 10:00 am.
This is the agenda:
1) Minutes from 11 June 2014
2) Notifications from the President
3) 235° National Council of CONI
4) Olympic and High Level Activities
5) National Sports Federation Activities - Associated Sport Disciplines - Sports Promotion Bodies - Anti-Doping Activities
6) Territorial organisations
7) CONI-Coni Servizi Spa Relations
8) Administrative Affairs
9) Miscellaneous and proposals of National Board members.
The 235nd National Council of CONI will be held on 11 June at 15.00 at the Foro Italico.
This is the agenda:
1) Approval of the minutes of the meeting of 11 June 2014
2) Notifications from the President
3) F.S.N.(National Sports Federation)-D.S.A.(Associated Sport Disciplines)-E.P.S. (Sports Promotion Bodies) Activities
4) Territorial Organisations
5) CONI Financial and Administrative Affairs
6) Miscellaneous
On Wednesay, Malagò at the Open Day of the High Specialization Olympic Management course
On Wednesday the 16th of July, CONI President Giovanni Malagò is going to open the works of the Open Day connected to the High Specialization Olympic Management course. The event, organized by CONI School of Sport, will take place at the Sala della Scherma of Acquacetosa Olympic Preparation Centre, starting at 11 a.m.
Anti-doping data from 2012 and 2013 presented, Italy is the fifth country in the world for number of controls. Malagò: "Budget increased
The President of CONI, Giovanni Malagò, along with the Secretary General, Roberto Fabbricini, today unveiled - during a press conference at the Foro Italico - the activities carried out over the last year by the anti-doping organisations who work within the Italian National Olympic Committee and the statistical data on controls pertaining to 2012 and 2013. The meeting with the information bodies was attended by the Chairman of the Doping Control Committee, General Lucio Nobili, the Chief Prosecutor of the Italian Anti-doping Prosecution Office (UPA), Tammaro Maiello, and the Chairman of the Therapeutic Use Exemption Committee, Mr Luigi Frati, as well as Michele Signorini, Manager in charge of Anti-doping at CONI and other leading figures from the organisation's departments.
Malagò stressed the importance of the international recognition in relation to the route taken by the various bodies which, from July 2013, had changed their own managers. "I have a sacred respect of the hierarchies, they represent independent bodies, and they themselves have a real excellence. The CONI, despite the problems, has increased the budget of the controls from 1 million 600 thousand euro to 2 million. In 2012 and 2013, as confirmed today by WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency), CONI was the fifth NADO (National Anti-Doping Organisation) in the world by the number of controls carried out. The department is advanced and a powerful deterrent to those who have strange ideas".
This is, in fact, the official ranking from the WADA on the night, concerning the countries that have tested their athletes with greater frequency: Russia leads the ranking list, with a total of 14,582 tests performed, followed by China (13,364), Germany (7,709) and the U.S. (7,144). Italy is in fifth place with a total of 6,816 tests. The figure shown is that of 2.5% of athletes testing positive with respect to all the controls. And Malagò reiterated: "Just 0.1% saddens me, let alone 2.5%".
During the conference, it was repeatedly shown how the interaction between the various components promotes a more effective and comprehensive action to combat doping. The General Lucio Nobili, who chairs the Anti-Doping Control Commission, highlighted the numbers from their own organisation. "The first half of 2014 showed an increase in the controls: 4,100 in the first six months of the year, compared with 6,600 in 2012 and 6,700 in 2013. We are carrying out surprise checks, without prior notice, in compliance with the guidelines laid down by WADA". Two journalists, Luigi Ferrajolo and Giovanni Bruno, also work in the organisation as well.
Luigi Frati, President of the Commission for Therapeutic Use Exemptions, on the other hand stressed "the quantitative and qualitative activity in the context of dialectics between departments, with a view to understanding and analysing the various diseases in order to prevent risks to health". Frati also highlighted the importance of "a world leading anti-doping laboratory thanks to the commitment and quality of work carried out by Francesco Botrè, who is also a global coordinator".
The conference closed with the participation of Tammaro Maiello, Chief Prosecutor of the UPA. "Of the court referrals arranged by us and gone to trial up to today many convictions came from the Italian Anti-Doping Court (TNA), as a witness to the quality of the case for the prosecution. The greatest pride is that in the World Anti-Doping Code, which comes into effect from January 2015, the penalty for the association with disqualified persons will be implemented".
Malagò in Montecitorio at the conference "The economic impact of sport in Italy". The CONI-ISTAT working table is ready
Today, CONI President Giovanni Malagò has taken part in a conference on "The economic impact of sport in Italy" at the Chamber of Deputies, together with the President of Budgetary Control Commission of the Chamber of Deputies Francesco Boccia, and Juventus President Andrea Agnelli.
Malagò has pictured the present moment of Italian sport, trying to broaden the perspective which must not be limited to the world of football. "There is a will to attack the issues, but it is not quite right to identify football with sport in general. There are two Italian girls winning Wimbledon, the girls winning the Clay Pigeon Shooting World Championship, an Italian is yellow jersey at the Tour de France." About the law related to facilities: "For about thirty years we have been thinking about making money without building, today the whole sport system is taking its toll. A law has passed that a few presidents did not like, but the best has been done: this law guarantees definite times, but it must be given opportunities to those who have the competences. Differently from Germany, we have a 1,5-2% easily reachable, but we have a disastrous situation from the point of view of infrastructures, there is the world of school and then the issue of the elder. 41% of boys between 11 and 15 years stops practising sport. For each percentage point we have recuperated, the State earns 200 milions of Euros." Francesco Boccia, President of the Budgetary Control Commission by the Chamber of Deputies, has faced this subject starting from the law about stadiums: "The force Juventus has had throughout these years against bureaucracy in order to build the new stadium is the proof to how in Italy the legislator has the duty to change the rules, not everybody can wait for so long. We want to allow the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate to know thoroughly the social value of sport."
Social and economic value, at the center of Andrea Agnelli's intervention: "Sport is an extraordinary means of union. Juventus stadium alone is not useful to make Italian football competitive, Udinese and Sassuolo deserve an acclamation. Calculating the incidence of the agonistic movement in Italy is the first step. Germany has 3,3% of its PIL and the 4,8% of the workforce. These are numbers that deserve attention and not only being at the sixth or seventh place of a global analysis of the Culture Commission." In the course of the conference General Director of CONI Servizi Michele Uva has then presented the CONI-ISTAT working table with the collaboration of the Chamber of Deputies, which has the aim to develop the first research of the economic impact of sport in Italy, also as a starting point in order to plan any legislative initiative.
CONI: On 8 July Malagò will go to the Chamber of Deputies to participate in the conference "The economic impact of sport in Italy"
The President of CONI, Giovanni Malagò, will be the principal lecturer at the conference on "The economic impact of sport in Italy", which will be held on 8 July at the Chamber of Deputies (Queen Hall) from 3 pm. The in-depth analysis has been sponsored by the Budget, Treasury and Economic Planning Commission. Andrea Agnelli, President of Juventus Football Club, will also participate, as well as Francesco Boccia, President of the Committee on Budgetary Control, and Livio Proli, President of EA7 Olimpia Armani. During the conference, the CONI-ISTAT work space will be presented too, in collaboration with the Chamber of Deputies research centre, aimed at the development of the first research into the economic impact of sport in Italy.
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