Victor Gavril, the communication coordinator of the Ministry of Sport, Mr.

Eduard Novac, the Minister of Sport in Iasi County and to present the National Strategy for Sport, an important project for Romanian sport.

Tudorel Toader, the rector of the University of Iasi, Mr.

Minister Eduard Novac, Silvia Stroiscu, Olympic champion in gymnastics, and Mr.

It is an honour for us, sir, that you have chosen our city for the national sports strategy presentation.

Maybe there are some necessary reasons, especially those related to the fact that the University of Alexandria-Cuzco-Adimias is among the few universities in the country that have a sports faculty as a state-owned specialization.

I would like to greet the mayor and the president of the Judicial Council, along with the other guests of your nobility.

For a strategic approach in Romania, in terms of the development of sport.

And you chose our time as being a favorable 1, unfortunately not due to the results, but due to the lack of these, which cannot necessarily be imposed on the Ministry.

I think that the lack of these people, who can't be impeached by the Ministry, I think that it was a lack of care that Romania didn't know how to coordinate in the last 30 years and at this moment we are where we are.

But time is not wasted, the Romanian nation is alive, it is active and can generate again sports branches to which it excels, as it has done throughout history.

IASU as a university center, but also 1 of the largest pre-university and pre-school education centers in Romania, has approached a local strategy for the development of sport and I hope it will reach a common point with the national strategy, in which the pre-university and pre-school infrastructure that we want to make available to the younger generation should be a priority in the investment programmes that we have advanced.

In the last 7 years, in Iasi municipality, a massive program has started to build sports grounds, let's say regulated and brought to the highest standards, along with sports halls, swimming pools for children, and ultimately, the attempt to stimulate our children's presence on the playground.

Not necessarily to watch some exceptional sports performances, but rather to give them the chance for a healthy life, where they can develop harmoniously, with a free spirit, and where they can be healthy and well developed emotionally.

This is the first goal we set for ourselves at Iasi Municipality, the second being, of course, where there is a desire and the ability to stimulate them in the performance sport to go further.

We have 42 synthetic sports grounds with a night, of which we have finished over

There are 5 sports halls in the works, 2 in the finalization course, 1 is already finished.

We have had several discussions with the Ministry of Sport, with different sports specialties to make the school an excellent 1.

1 of the 3 we proposed is that 1 of the new rooms could become the regional gymnasium, an artistic 1.

Another room could be designated for writing and we thought about the Ion Crangă school, the new sports gym, another gym for other specialties that our children would need and would be interested in doing performance sports.

And I said that every time, where there is interest, where there are coaches, we should start to mobilize together with the Romanian sports federations so that we can make centers of excellence.

And I had another proposal that I have advanced in analysis, that from the whole number of boarding schools, from the pre-university rooms that we manage at the municipal level, 1% should be dedicated to bring children from outside the municipality and house them in schools.

There they will complete their school preparation and there they can continue their sports preparation, of course, together with the sports clubs that will take over, with the high school, with the sports program, or other forms that we will find common ground to organize ourselves.

These are our thoughts as the municipality of Aș related to sports, and of course, with special attention, we are heading towards the large sports infrastructure, priority number 1 being the polyvalent sports hall, which has reached the final authorization phase.

We need 1 more notice from the media, which we hope to get in the next few days, and we will also issue a construction permit, so that the Romanian government can pass through the government's decision to approve this investment and start the bidding for the works.

We believe that we are on the right track, maybe not on the 1 we would have wanted to be on, because we should have started earlier, but it's good to start somewhere and I think we are on the way to make the most important historic project for sport in the municipality and the region of the North, the Polyvalent Hall.

Thank you again for the presence of all those I invited, and I invited them together, sports club bosses, people who have made performances over time and who have written the names of Iasi on the highest podiums of the country and the world.

The Minister will now present the National Sport Strategy.

In Romanian sport, and in Iași in particular, among many other places.

First of all, it is a big county, a big town, it is probably the most important town in Moldova, which could give a lot of benefits to the sport and to the sport itself.

To do sport, you don't just have to do training, to be the best at training, you have to become a human being, you have to be educated, you have to be civilized, and on the part of the university and culture, IAAS could come with added value.

I came here with my team from the Ministry to present the first national strategy for the sport of Romania through which we wish to give direction to the Romanian sport.

In the last 23 years, Romanian sports have lost a lot.

From the 24 medals won at Sydney in 8 sports, we have only won 4 medals in 2 sports last year.

Of course, these numbers have many reasons.

They are not just as some people thought.

They wanted to explain that there is no money in sports, or that kids don't come to sports anymore.

There is a lot of money in sports, there is money, and kids want to come to sports.

We just have to find the solution and the system, how we arrange all these things to work as well as possible.

Sunt bani si copiii vor sa vina la sport.

sistemul cum aranjam toate aceste lucruri sa functioneze cat mai bine.

Eu tot timpul consider ca si stiu si pot sa apreciez valoarea banilor si a bugetului de stat, nu numai a ei

I know and I can appreciate the value of money and the state budget,

I always think that behind every budget there are people who worked for this money and we have to respect this.

That's why I want to create a system in which the state budget for sport really has some benefits.

I've heard for many years that the Ministry of Sport has the smallest budget and we can barely manage and we can't perform well with that.

Indeed, in the performance sport, the budget is unlimited.

You know very well how much is spent on football and professional sports.

We are in a situation where we have to see what is happening in Romania.

First of all, we are the last, I think, and Bulgaria, we are the country where we have this huge structure of a state, state clubs, where, of course, there are many employees, many sports bases managed by ministries.

There is no such practice in Europe, it doesn't exist anymore.

to re-create that system from before 1990.

So we have to follow the trend that exists in the international world, that exists in Europe.

Of course, In the Romanian sports system, there are 5 ministries that finance sport with high performance and significant sums.

1 of them is the Ministry of Education, with 100 and something clubs, CSCs and LPSUs with sports programs, with thousands of employees, with many sports bases.

We are the Ministry of Sport, with 48 clubs, plus funding from the federation, plus sports bases, almost 400 sports bases, a considerable budget, which of course does not reach the sports, it reaches to administer sports bases and to pay salaries.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs, DINAMO, again a fairly consistent budget, STEAUA, the Ministry of Defense, Rapid, the Ministry of Transport and COSR, another organization that finances high-performance sports.

So we have a parallel system, in which somehow everyone wants to be in competition with each other and we don't have a global vision.

And not to mention local authorities and other structures.

The idea of the strategy is precisely to reorganize this system and to have a pyramid system when a ministry, the Ministry of Sport, if we say it as it should be, coordinates and directs everything that means sports politicians, strategies and involvement, and everyone can align themselves to this line.

I thought that only a strategy can solve this problem.

We want this strategy to be the bible of sport in the next 10-20 years, so that we can prevent this political instability that marked us in the last 30 years, so many ministers came and changed that chair, but no project has been able to continue.

This strategy approved by the government and the lines, the directions we want to implement, then we can give stability to the sport, so that these things can be implemented.

Anyone can come, the minister, the minister or the president of the federation, anyone.

Of course, we thought about how to make it good.

Performance sports are a very small niche and you can't reform a sport.

I mean, to talk only about high performance sport, it represents only a few tens of thousands of athletes in the country, which is very little to have a truly beneficial result in the future.

So we decided to address everything that sports activities mean.

1 is school sports, table tennis and performance sports.

have, of course, some figures, sport de performanza.

Avem de sigur niste cifre, dar inainte de a intra in cifre si de situatie actuala ce avem acuma, as dorit sa vorbesc putin de fapt despre cine a fost elaborata aceasta strategie.

Probabil ati mai auzit multe strategii, cine cum a gandit in felul seu.

I would like to talk a little bit about who elaborated this strategy.

I think that in this document we have the best ideas and experiences of people in the field.

We consulted almost 500 people, reaching almost 300 and something central structure entities, here meaning federations, coaches, former performance coaches, former Olympic champions, federal coaches, from the Ministry of Education, from the business world.

So, everyone who came to these consultations, we organized more than 20 consultations, they really came with their

years of experience, which they shared and they came with a plus value, to really be able to elaborate in a document as real as possible for Romania and for our situation.

These experiences are certainly not learned in college or in a day.

So they are the experiences of people of 20-30 years who have practiced and know very well what problems they face.

That's why I'm very happy that, indeed, we have realized, we have collected the best information to develop a strategy.

Of course, the Ministry of Sport is a small ministry, we don't have the human resources, to say it like that, to be able to develop a performing strategy.

So we called on the university field, we had a collaboration with the University of Babesboia, which indeed came with a performing team of strategic development, and together with Dânsi we elaborated this document.

So, speaking of the 3 major objectives that we want to develop and to develop in the coming years,

have, of course, gathered information from other countries, Italy, Hungary, everywhere.

All the information we have shows us that even in school sports, unfortunately, we are not doing well.

Today's children are no longer the same 30 years ago who ran every day and were used to physical activity.

In Romania, in the school program, there are 3 sports practiced.

Unlike other countries, 6 or 8 sports are practiced, much more diversified.

There are sports that involve the knot, the skating, other sports, the dance, other sports that, indeed, become much more attractive for children than the program we have at the moment.

If we don't reform this program and we don't come up with a much more attractive program, then children will definitely move away from sports and won't get involved

That's why our children are almost the most obese, from predisposed obesity in Europe, because of these reasons.

Table tennis, only 5% of the Romanians practice sport, compared to other countries where we are talking about

And in school sports, from 2 sports activities per week, we will increase to 5 activities.

This means 3, 4 hours of sports per week, plus 1 or 2 extra activities, extra school activities.

And in terms of performance sports, as I said at the beginning, the results are worrying.

I think Romania has already demonstrated that we have a lot of potential and not only at world of the Olympic Games and to find the solutions for this.

We believe that, first of all, the most important thing is this document to be approved by the government, to have a political pact, so everything that means sport to become a national priority, And the next step is the direction for the development of sports.

It is the decision which sports we want to run in

But if we decide that we want to develop 15 sports, then for 10-20 years we will invest in these sports and we will create all our programs to develop these sports.

Because these sports can bring us results at an international level, make us proud and have this feeling that we had this summer when David Popovic, or Cătălin Chirilă, or other athletes managed to win.

Every country that, indeed, the sport has prioritized its sports.

We have analyzed these sports based on historical results, based on current results, and based on the possibility of getting medals in the future for us.

Of course, these categories are not fixed.

After each Olympic Games, these sports will be analyzed, evaluated.

If they have not met the objectives, they will leave the group or join the previous group.

Of course, for the development of a sport, if I tell you about gymnastics, you think about what gymnastics means in Romania.

Don't think that gymnasts are born at Deva or Onesti.

Where there is an infrastructure, where there is activity, and where there is a will.

So, think about how it would be, in 10 years, every county residence, at least, to have a gym full of gymnasts.

So how can a sports base be built without a vision or a project like the world, we can have a national vision.

years, we will have infrastructure for all these priority sports.

And then think about how every county council should have a skating rink, a hockey team, a speed skating rink, an artistic skating rink.

First, it is the infrastructure, the strategy on infrastructure.

Second, it is the activity in these infrastructures.

It is very important, it is not just the infrastructure.

We have to create some national projects through which we pay instructors to train after work for 2 hours, to initiate the children in those sports.

If we manage to invest 20 years and implement this project, so that every county council has infrastructure on priority sports, then I guarantee you that these sports will never fall.

But the solution is the strategy and the implementation of it.

Anyone will have the minister, the government and anything that will happen in the next 20 years.

Without a new law, a legal basis that supports this movement, we will never succeed.

If we will not succeed in making an order in all these structures, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Sport, to decide who will lead this sport then it will be very hard another problem, for sure, that affects us, as I said, this state system, we have to reach that in 10 years all the clubs in Romania will be private.

Private, independent, belonging to local authorities, regardless, but not in this system.

We have to get the sport to be financed by performance, not by the obligation to finance the sport.

Not by the fact that a coach has 2 athletes and he has to get a salary.

The coach has to produce to get a salary.

So, look, This is the current financing connection in sport in Romania.

Which parent is motivated to give their child to sport?

When you don't understand anything from what it means there.

So, in order for sport to become attractive, we have to create a system in which everyone knows what is step 2, what is step 3, what is step

and something percent of children leave after 18 years old.

You don't have any guarantee that if you're in the system and you were a performance athlete, you have a chance to return to the system.

You don't have a chance to return to the system.

And unfortunately, we lose athletes, not athletes, we lose people, people with experience and quality, who have accumulated that quality and are reinvesting it in the system.

Many champions who quit, unfortunately, have no place in the system to work and work in the offices.

The office work, every second person on the street can do.

But the experience of a 20-30 year old athlete, no.

This is where the current problem comes from, because we don't have any coaches.

Because the current system doesn't force any coach to specialize, to maintain, to be updated, to be updated to the international knowledge of

Forget it, I already bring all the sports to the coaches abroad.

Our coaches were good 20-30 years ago, but the Sport has evolved a lot.

And if we don't keep up with this trend, we are no longer competitive.

So, anyone who finishes a two-year training course at CNFPA, next week, or I don't know when, I might become a national wrestling coach.

I mean, we have to create a system in which the coaches have to evolve and always be on the run, to get points.

A system similar to education or health, with grades and everything else.

Although, of course, the salary would be...

So you realize that here we are talking about what I said before about a system in which we all know what are the steps in which the athlete can evolve and what the performance sport offers for him in the future.

So, taking into account that all clubs in the future will be private and financed by the federations on those sports, or by local authorities and sponsors.

So, children over 14 years old, because that's where quality work really has to start, work in different, let's say, specific disciplines, we create some regional centers of excellence, multi-sport, which will serve 5-6 regional counties,

counties around these regional centers, in which these children can train, to have the best training conditions, the best coaches, school, accommodation, and, indeed, be a point where there is a battle, a competition to enter these centers, so that the children can, and of course I am always talking about priority sports.

And that is why I am in Iasi, that we want to build a center right here.

IAS will be a regional centre of excellence for Moldova, which has all the necessary equipment, of course, there's a lot of work to be done, on a sporting basis, but we can already give information to the local authority about the sports facilities that are needed.

And it is much easier for the mayor or for the council to know what to invest in.

And if we have this idea at the national level, then our budgets that we invest in will be, indeed, and our investments will be spent efficiently.

By creating such a regional centre, we are thinking of 6 regional centres in the country, and 2 or

in the winter, we can intervene in the most fragile area,

years old, where the most athletes leave.

Because parents, not seeing that the sport in Romania, the performance, would offer something stable, they take them out of the system.

It's better to go and learn, my child, it's better to go to college, Leave handball, you don't have a place to play in the club team, because we pay the players from France and other places.

So we have to re-evaluate ourselves, first of all, and respect our value and give priority to our children to excel.

And after that, from here, from these centers, the best children would enter national and Olympic games.

And of course, the seventh step, which is not there, would be the system of reintegration of the sportsmen into the system.

You left today, tomorrow you have the offer to be in the national team, to be part of the system, coach, mechanic, I don't know, masseur, whatever.

Not that you stayed 20 years and you have to withdraw.

You don't have to be an Olympic champion or a world champion, to be there.

And thus, creating this system, then, immediately, there will be and there will be a circulation and the effect of the snowstorm.

All our sportsmen will stay here, they will have their place there, and then they will be able to pass on their experiences for their children.

In this national strategy for sports, I realized at the end of the elaboration that I actually did my work.

But of these 70 goals to be implemented, I believe that in 5 years the vast majority can be implemented.

And of course the infrastructure is the slowest part, which we need

I think I came with a plus for Iași with this information and I really want this project to be realized.

Of course, for any project there is a need for stability, but in the system we have thought of and to have this political support and understanding, we can succeed.

Also, next year We want to change the funding of the federations.

Based on a ten-year strategy, federations usually come with annual funding requests.

We look at them and see that the federation requires 2 months of cantonment, 3 jerseys, 7 competitions and we don't know if those requests are and are going in the right direction.

But if a federation, and you wake up after 5 years that you spent 10 million euros with a federation and it has no result.

But if a federation comes, if you want to be part of this priority group, you develop a national strategy, yours, for 10 years, with the goal of in

I need this infrastructure, I need these clubs, I need this activity.

Budgeted every year, and then we know, with intermediate goals, and then we know very well that the money invested is going in the right direction.

And of course, after 2, 3, 4 years, nothing is achieved, but the money has been spent again, then we rethink the funding of the federation.

There is a lot of work to be done, but we are brave and ambitious.

Finally, I would like to invite Silvia Struescu, who is an Olympic champion in gymnastics, a former gymnast and the ambassador of the project, to say a few words on her behalf.

First of all, I would like to thank the Minister for the opportunity to be an ambassador in the National Sport Strategy.

As a high-performance athlete, I can say that it was imperative to implement this strategy.

I came at the 12th hour with the strategy, because, as the Minister mentioned, in the year 2000 we got

medals, and in this year we only have 4 medals, which means that the whole system we built or tried to perform on didn't work.

There are many important and important aspects.

I started with this part of prioritizing the Olympic sports.

I'm glad that gymnastics is 1 of these sports.

We have a tradition and a history in gymnastics, but in the last period the system didn't work anymore and we have to accept the fact that we are in a deadlock.

That's why I am here, I am trying to pass on the message and I am trying to popularize gymnastics at the country level, because we have training centers only in very narrow areas, and to achieve performance and results, we need a bigger number of athletes to have this natural selection or to have where to make the selection.

Let's not base ourselves, as in our case, on gymnastics, on 5 gymnasts.

We have to participate in the World Championship and 3 of them get injured and we can't participate with the team anymore.

Which means that we automatically lose the chance to qualify, again at the next edition of the Olympic Games, which is a pretty sad thing.

If we look at all the sports, of course the infrastructure is, so to speak, on the ground, or it's a little too drastic, I don't know, but that's what they say it is on the ground, and if we don't have infrastructure and we don't have a base, we don't have a place to take the kids to sports and a place to prepare them.

Just to send them all to football, not even there, it seems to me that we don't achieve very good results.

Because every child has the necessary aptitude for a certain sport and they have to go towards that sport.

Another important aspect is related to the family, meaning the parents who have a very important influence on the children.

I understand that school is very important, but sports are equally important.

I know that the program is very busy, but if you come as parents with additional meditation, then there are many children who say, I should have given up sports because I didn't have time.

And it's a little sad because maybe those children have the capacity and can become champions and it is important for that child to reach the peak of, let's say, performance, if he has certain aptitudes.

As for what else touches the strategy, it is the part of specialists, specialists in the field.

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