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“Happiness does not come automatically. It is not a gift that good fortune bestows upon us and a reversal of fortune takes back. It depends on us alone. One does not become happy overnight, but with patient labor, day after day. Happiness is constructed, and that requires effort and time. In order to become happy, we have to learn how to change ourselves.”
Luca & Francesco Cavalli-Sforza
Beginning in 1991, two generations of soccer officials, including the then-presidents of two regional soccer confederations under FIFA – the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football, known as CONCACAF, which includes the United States, and the South American Football Confederation, or CONMEBOL, which represents organized soccer in South America – used their positions of trust within their respective organizations to solicit bribes from sports marketers in exchange for the commercial rights to their soccer tournaments. They did this over and over, year after year, tournament after tournament.
“For instance, in 2016, the United States is scheduled to host the centennial edition of the Copa America – the first time that tournament will be held in cities outside South America. Our investigation revealed that what should be an expression of international sportsmanship was used as a vehicle in a broader scheme to line executives’ pockets with bribes totaling $110 million – nearly a third of the legitimate costs of the rights to the tournaments involved.
The criminal activity we have identified did not solely involve sports marketing. Around 2004, bidding began for the opportunity to host the 2010 World Cup, which was ultimately awarded to South Africa – the first time the tournament would be held on the African continent. But even for this historic event, FIFA executives and others corrupted the process by using bribes to influence the hosting decision. The indictment also alleges that corruption and bribery extended to the 2011 FIFA presidential election, and to agreements regarding sponsorship of the Brazilian national soccer team by a major U.S. sportswear company.
In short, these individuals and organizations engaged in bribery to decide who would televise games; where the games would be held; and who would run the organization overseeing organized soccer worldwide. While at least one FIFA executive served as CONCACAF president without pay, there was little altruism involved, as he alone is alleged to have taken more than $10 million in bribes over a 19-year period and amassed a personal fortune from his ill-gotten gains. In many instances, defendants and their co-conspirators planned aspects of their scheme during meetings held here in the United States; they used the banking and wire facilities of the United States to distribute bribe payments; and they planned to profit from their scheme in large part through promotional efforts directed at the growing U.S. market for soccer.”
US Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch
Today is the Heysel tragedy anniversary to remind that violence still affects football. 30 years ago before the Champions final between Juventus and Liverpool 39 persons died and 600 injured. The Heysel tragedy was one of the darkest moments of modern football, where violence took over sport values, and changed a game into a nightmare.
In what direction goes the youth sports? The Jambo Free Style Urban Park is the UISP answer (the largest Italian Sport for All organization. For two days, Bologna, Italy, May 30-31, UISP will be present at TheJamBO 2015, animating Fiera di Bologna with the activities of urban freestyle like skate, parkour, tricking, speedbol, tree climbing, biking , half pipe and basketball. In a mix of sports and music, metro art and public meetings will be possible to discover and try out these new expressions of movement, which are considered a lifestyle by the crew of practitioners all over the world.
The urban freestyle are sports, because they have all the features, they are skilled expressions of movement. They involve to take risks and therefore require to be focused on the tasks and fast decision-making capacity, as well as coordination and balance. There are other components, such as ability to adapt to a changing environment.
Those who practice this kind of sport, parkour for example, have learned to move knowing to take a calculated dose of risk. They are also exciting activities, where it comes out the ability to manage the emotions. One of the things more intriguing is the ability to learn through their own practice s. The fact of being able to exercise outdoors and in the streets is a form of re-appropriation of spaces in the city. Like it was when we were kids in the ’60s, when you could play freely in the street.
Relatore: Alberto Cei
Data: 24 Giugno, ore 19.00-20.15
Durata: 75 minuti
Questo webinar è dedicato a chi ama allenarsi in modo intelligente ed etico, a chi si impegna pur sapendo che ci saranno dei giorni in cui penserà che non ce la farà mai, ma l’aveva messo in conto.
Il potere dell’atleta consiste nel gareggiare al meglio delle sue potenzialità e si costruisce con un allenamento quotidiano svolto con questa precisa volontà. Solo in questo modo s’impara ad adattarsi ai diversi momenti della competizione, producendo prestazioni ottimali. Raggiungere questo obiettivo non è facile e spesso si pensa di essere pronti per una gara importante, quando invece non lo si è abbastanza. Bisogna quindi sviluppare la piena consapevolezza della propria condizione prestativa attraverso sedute di allenamento che mettano in evidenza i punti di forza e di difficoltà e che consentano di superare questi ultimi.
Il webinar è rivolto a: allenatori, atleti, dirigenti e psicologi.
Partecipando si acquisiranno competenze su:
Il programma di Sviluppo a Lungo Termine dell’Atleta (LTAD)
La fase “Train to Win”
La predisposizione mentale dell’atleta all’allenamento quotidiano
Promuovere la prontezza mentale in allenamento
Allenarsi a gestire gli eventi imprevisti, le situazioni di gara e i momenti di maggiore pressione agonistica
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We always talk with the expert athletes and their coaches about the relevance to repeat in the competition as they did in training. Thus the training prepares the athletes to develop and refine the skills necessary to successfully address the sport events. In this stage, the training relates only to a lesser extent on the technique acquisition, because this goal has been carried out in previous stages of the long-term athlete development (LTAD). What it’s then the training to win, following one of the best descriptions of this stage of the athletes’ sport career, by Canadian Sport for Life.
At the Train to Win stage of LTAD, training plans require double, triple or multiple periodization to accommodate the extremely high training volumes. Carefully designed periodization plans allow the high performance athlete to be able to express their full potential on competition day.
General considerations during Train to Win
Diego Maragona in boxers, huge, obese, which is based barely standing, he performs with a tennis ball in a scene from ‘Youth by Sorrentino and that it’s already’ a cult. He’s not really the Pibe de Oro, of course, but the Argentine actor Roly Serrano, identical except for the fact that he’s practically obese. Sorrentino, always in love of Maradona, leader of his Napoli, who won all in the Ferlaino era, after having dedicated to him the Oscar, he wanted to portray in Youth with sui generis a tribute . A choice that liked the true Maradona and on Facebook he thanked the director.
Winning helps to win. Probably if Lazio had not scored the goal in the first minutes Juventus would have been much more difficult for the pressure that every Lazio player was playing on them. At the start of the match Juventus did not seem as fighting as it has proven to be the Lazio, perhaps because in the League it had won both times with ease, or because it thought they would not be involved in such an intense manner. The goal conceded awakened the team from this error of presumption, and not surprisingly Juventus quickly put the result in a draw. Juventus had to be afraid of losing to win. And you have this feeling only when you stand on the edge. The team could not commit another mistake and if you are a great team these are the moments where you have to prove it. The opponent must understand that it’s not enough to scare you to win, it must do more, it must expect your reaction and make the wall. Lazio has not been able to sustain the advantage gained and at the first opportunity it wasted. Lazio had worried Juventus, but now the two teams were back to draw and the match could start again. Only Juventus, at this point, knew the risk run and it would do anything not to fall into it again.
Both coaches have said that the games are made of episodes, it’s true, but for this reason we must know how to build positive episodes, otherwise what is the utility of the training or because theteams do not rely on a magician rather than a coach. I think Lazio has prepared at the best the game coming from two consecutive defeats. It faced a great mental effort to put the opponents immediately in trouble and throughout the first time succeeded quite well in this endeavor. Juventus suffered at first but then i quickly adapted to the game of Lazio, which at that point was very dangerous only in the action of the double goal post. Throughout the match Juventus have waited at the decisive momentum to blow, it struggled to keep the result in a draw, and when it had the opportunity it tried to score the decisive goal. In football, you do not know when the momentum happens, but if you trusts it comes, as in fact happened. It takes patience and confidence and when you have these two quality the team plays knowing that it’s only a matter of time. For this reason to win helps to win.
“Yeah, I’m still here,” sings Vasco Rossi and the same they say Valentino Rossi and Roger Federer. Both came second, proving once again to be worth the first and second place in the world ranking. Many of them have given up for dead on many occasions, stating that they did not know winning no more, they were old or the physical was not holding them more.
Probably these objection for a while time were true, but any athlete goes through moments like these, often the champions exceed them by changing something in the way they train and live competitions. Most likely the other sink, because they use these negative moments as an excuse to withdraw, because of something they consider superior to them. People often focus their comments on their age, as if it was an essential limit, a characteristic to which we must surrender.
I heard to say: “Federer is old and no longer able to hold that little exchange, otherwise he loses the point.” But how many would like to have this trouble just to be second in the world? They also say that because of this threshold has had to change how you play. True, but why interpret this change as a negative connotation? And instead to emphasize his determination to change to stay on the top of the world ranking. The same it was said until last year for Valentino Rossi: “Why does he not withdraw rather than collect disappointing results?”
The chorus of “why he/she does not abandon” has been told also about other sport champions. In Italy Giovanni Pellielo, in shooting, after three medals in three different Olympics, in London, at age 42, he did not enter the finals and also here the same voices, he has not noticed them, he has trained and the following year again won the world championship. Valentina Vezzali, 41, fencer, she won everything repeatedly, and she wants to go to Rio. Not to mention Andrea Pirlo and Gigi Buffon and the dream they are living in these days with Juventus. We have to evaluate these men and women for their performances but not to the age. Above all we have to learn from them, because they are an example of fighting mentality in the face of difficulty and humility in dealing with the daily sacrifices, that are needed to return to excel in their sports, without being sure to succeed in this venture.
It was presented yesterday the annual report of the Italian Football Association that among the many data presented has highlighted one particularly bad: we are in last place in Europe for players coming from the youth programs (8.4%). That is accompanied by the presence of 54% of foreign players in Serie A. This is not a new situation because in 2013 the FIFA had found that:
This negative data emerges also when analyzing the best European teams. They come from the youth programs: Manchester United, 40%; Barcelona, 59%; Ajax, 55% and Montpellier, 44%.
