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"Mr President, sport is an important economic and social factor, and is significant both in terms of its social role and of its value in the development of personality and peoples’ ability to integrate. Yet even during this, the European Year of Education through Sport, which has seen many successful major events, there have been problem areas, for example with regard to football.
In its Helsinki report, the Commission stated its intention of encouraging legal certainty in football and of cooperating more closely with clubs. The aim of this is to find alternatives to the development of a European transfer system, in which the training of young players is often treated as a secondary consideration.
As a member of the European Parliament’s ‘Friends of Football’
working group, I have spoken with many players, trainers and club and UEFA employees about how to promote clubs’ autonomy and long-term training for players at local, national and international level. In most of Europe’s football leagues it has become the norm to use players who are mediocre, and who were therefore bought cheaply, while blocking promising young ones, who are given far too little time for personal development.
When wealthy clubs then obtain these talented youngsters for themselves, this leaves the smaller clubs extremely frustrated. In the case of the top teams, it is precisely these talents who then sit on the bench if they fail to achieve rapid sporting success. This is the way in which valuable young talents are burnt out.
All of this means that the initiative that Mr Belet and other Members have launched is extremely important, as much too little is invested in the promotion of new talents in the EU.
Mr Figel’, do we need quotas for football teams so that the first team can include at least three self-trained players? Origin, nationality and EU citizenship should play no role in this respect. Or do we need the clubs to voluntarily commit themselves to giving their own young players a chance? I believe that it is not only trainers, clubs and football players that are interested in a solution, but also the millions of fans throughout Europe who identify with creative talents and their carefree style of playing."@en1
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