ROME (ITALPRESS) – Claudio Barbaro has been confirmed as president of Asi, Associazioni Sportive e Sociali Italiane, the sports promotion body that celebrated its 30th anniversary this year. Today, at the Casa delle Armi at the Foro Italico in Rome, the 11th National Elective Assembly anointed him with 98.02 percent of the vote. “I thank the delegates who renewed their trust. We will continue on the path we started so many years ago, continuing to promote sport as a central pivot of policies for well-being, health, culture, the environment and as an economic driver,” these were Barbaro’s first words. Asi, with nearly 1.5 million members nationwide, is the leading sports promotion organization, an achievement achieved thanks to the extensive work of territorial managers and sports sectors. Today Asi is also a home for 652 disciplines, many not included in the Coni register. “We are talking about two million practitioners,” Barbaro continued, “Equal welfare, fiscal, health, in short, the same rights to practice sports safely as others is certainly one of the frontiers of the new quadrennium, and in this the sports promotion bodies will be protagonists of government policies on the subject. After sport was included in our Constitutional Charter, emphasizing the importance of physical activity ‘in all its forms,’ this is a road to be taken precisely together with the government.” “Another challenge, one that will see us as moderators between the needs of sports associations and policymakers, accompanying the general reform of sport, to protect associations and managers of sports facilities in Italy, which sees the government committed to promoting policies focused on the welfare of the community linked to sport. An importance and dignity that the ministers present Francesco Lollobrigida and Andrea Abodi acknowledged to our world. It is precisely grassroots sport that must be the main interpreter of change,” concludes Barbaro.- Photo Asi Press Office -(ITALPRESS).
