ASSISI (ITALPRESS) – Vittorio Bosio has been reappointed national president of the Italian Sports Center. He was granted the leadership of the association for the four-year Olympic period 2024-2028 by the CSI National Elective Assembly, held in Assisi. Bosio from Bergamo – 73 years old and in his third term as president of the CSI, following the 2016 election held in Campi Bisenzio and the March 7, 2021 online election in Bergamo – garnered 10,590 votes out of the 10,901 attributed to the 122 voting delegates, with a percentage of 97.15 percent.
Also coming out of the ballot box was the renewal of the associational governing body, the CSI National Council, which after taking office appointed the members of the National Presidency and Area Coordinators. Appointed national vice presidents, as vicar Andrea De David (CSI Bologna) and Marco Calogiuri (CSI Lecce). In the year of the Jubilee, the hope envisioned by the CSI number one is one that flows from the assembly theme itself, “Protagonists of Tomorrow.”
“Ensuring future requires increasing responsibilities in the wake of new regulations. We need training that supports leaders in multiple aspects: the Christian vision of sport and man; the skills and knowledge to be protagonists in the sports scenario; and the motivation to promote the common good. These are elements that we cannot give up and that belong to the identity of the CSI.” Significant the key passage the one about being an Association. “We were born as an Association and we are still an Association. We must give the CSI the possibility to have all the useful tools, allowing us to be able to witness the values of welcome, inclusion, solidarity, in all strategic areas.”
Then, fresh from his re-election, Bosio announced to the audience of territorial delegates the first very important date to mark in the associative calendar: Saturday, October 4, when at the Auditorium Conciliazione, in front of the historic headquarters of the CSI National Presidency, a stone’s throw from the Vatican, the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the CSI will be celebrated. The association debate during the Assembly saw as many as 30 speeches by accredited leaders present at the Domus Pacis in Santa Maria degli Angeli. “Sport is part of the Church, it animates the Church and the Church must inhabit sport – the cue from the national ecclesiastical assistant, Fr. Luca Meacci – those who live the sporting experience like the Italian Sports Center and the Church the value of sport as an educational opportunity, as a space, as a time in which boys, children and people even less young live the sporting experience as protagonists putting a lot of passion into it and it is precisely in that context there that it is possible to educate but it is also possible to proclaim the Gospel.”
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