Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-01-Speech-3-171"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-12-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Football in the EU2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041201.16.3-171"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-12-01-Speech-3-1722
lpv:speaker	lp:Nikolaos Sifunakis2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (2004-07-20--2007-09-25)3 chair; CULT (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2007-09-25)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2004-07-28--2007-01-15)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2007-09-25)3 substitute; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2007-09-25)3
lpv:translated text	"Commissioner, we must all help so that the function of football, which is the popular sport operates as a social inclusion factor. Football is not simply a game which lasts 90 minutes, nor is it a purely business activity. It is, in many cases, the image of the efforts of an entire local society. That is why it is not right for the player transfer system to be based purely and simply on a decision by the Court of Justice which completely ignores the social role of sport. The free movement of workers also applies to footballers who, as working citizens of the European Union, have – and must have – this right. Nonetheless, the Commission could adopt measures designed to strengthen the ties between footballers and football clubs and the local society, as we heard earlier. The proposal formulated for a minimum number of players, for example, who must come from the area of their team, is important. On the other hand, the concentration of high value players in financially robust teams is weakening the tie between these teams and the societies from which they come and is having an adverse effect on the possible development of the talent of players in the area. The picture painted today by numerous big, mainly European teams which, at important football events appear with only one or two players from their country, or even none as we heard a short while ago from Belgium, should be a cause of concern to us. Sport is and must remain the basic axis of social integration and I hope that the Commission will move in this direction. The social and educational character of sport has been emphasised several times and we must promote it as such."@en1

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