Sport, recovery or false restart? Asi round table, balance sheet after the first 30 days of reopening

Istat data predict an increase in health expenditure of up to 71 billion euros in the coming years due to the increase in sedentary lifestyle during the pandemic. And, with over 300 days of closure, about 12 billion euros have already gone up in smoke, 10% of the structures have closed, another 27% are at risk of closing down between now and the end of the year and 200,000 seats are at risk work. We are at the restart of sport, on paper, but, to understand if it will be a real recovery, we will have to wait for the autumn. Now, without hesitation, it is time for the Government to support the commitment of those who provide sports (associations and structures) and to bring those who, in this pandemic period, have moved away from sports practice. In short, the real game is played now. We will have to arrive prepared for the autumn data. Sports operators are exhausted and cannot face a second crisis like the one already passed. This is what emerged yesterday in a round table organized by ASI (Italian Sports and Social Associations, the body chaired by Sen. Claudio Barbaro) and hosted on the Adnkronos portal; first of a series of online meetings that will tackle national problems but which will give space to regional realities. A new interpretation that immediately proved to be a winner, recording a high degree of audience. It started from Calabria. “A moment of confrontation like today’s is important to understand the state of the art linked to individual regional realities and understand in which direction to go. Each choice of a national nature should take into account individual local problems”, explained the Deputy Vice President of Asi Bruno Campanile. Invited to the round table, in addition to Campanile, Andrea Pambianchi, President of Ciwas, Giuseppe Melissi, President of ASI Calabria, Giorgio Lico, Vice President of CONI Calabria, Clotilde Minasi representing the Calabria Region. Welcome presence, that of the Sergio players Floccari and Nicolas Viola. To moderate, Valentina Fasolato, Marketing and Communication Manager of ASI Sport and Fisco. Giuseppe Melissi, explains the point of view of the territory: “At the government level, funds have been allocated a little blindly, without going to actually analyze the needs of the territory We need a greater listening to the territory and the ASI initiative goes in this direction ion “.” Sports centers were the first to be closed and always the last to be able to reopen even if the NAS controls have always gone well, contrary to those that occurred in supermarkets and on public transport “, added Andrea Pambianchi, Ciwas President . Giorgio Lico, Vice President of CONI Calabria, raises the alarm on the departure of young people from sport: “Unfortunately, we will have a loss of future talents. We have a sense of restart that is apparent at the moment: I hope it will not happen like last year in which they made us reopen briefly and then close “. In the same vein, Clotilde Minasi, majority director of the Calabria Region:” There is still so much fear when approaching sports centers. We are aware of this. I believe that sport deserves attention because it is a place of values, sharing, education, commitment as well as a great economic induced and also a tourist attraction, a useful reflection on the health service “. Two footballers born in Calabria, Sergio Floccari and Nicolas Viola. And precisely from those who have made sport their reason for living, like Sergio Floccari, an appeal comes: “We must encourage young people to go back to practicing sport for both physical and psychological well-being; our task is to be able to help the generations most affected by Covid, those of adolescents, those who have lost interest or think they cannot resume as before “. Nicolas Viola instead emphasized the temper of Italians:” How professional I have a moral duty to help young people, teach them what they have taught me and contribute to their growth. Comparisons such as these are the engine to ignite this mechanism ”.