San Marino Fair Play Committee: “Education and sport an indispensable combination for the personal and collective growth of athletes”
The San Marino National Fair Play Committeemember of the international organizations Efpm and Cifp, he intervenes in the light of some negative and detrimental events and episodes that occur in the sports world.
“Sport teaches, this is an undisputed truth that anyone who has practiced a sport and there are many, is led to confirm that education and sport form an inseparable union and through the different activities at each level it is possible to learn a series of essential values for personal and collective growth – declares in a note the San Marino National Fair Play Committee -. The educational dimension of sport for each activity allows you to take home a baggage of teachings, since each sport has its own differences and allows you to learn principles, how to help overcome; every sportsman has faced defeat, with the idea of not being the best “.
The first fundamental teachings of sport are “humility, the determination to dare to the utmost, passion, knowing how to respect the rules, playing within these know-how helps to grow with judgment; for every young and adult athlete, sport becomes a life experience in growth capable of forming and training in better people “.
And again: “How to educate young people through sport? Encouraging and bringing young people to play sports is always a wise and shareable choice. The educational value of sports disciplines translates into laying the foundations for a more honest, healthier and more serene society, teaching and transmitting values that will make a difference in the generations of tomorrow. The importance of ethics, of fair play during sports competitions is an example of added value in a young person and in society; the aspect of sport that helps the growth of athletes is its playful dimension, the awareness that sport is ‘a game’ and that at the same time ‘it is not just a game’ to rediscover the values of sharing and sociability and therefore are enhanced the values of respect for the rules, of the ethics of the discipline; knowing how to share and achieve goals even with teammates, creating strong bonds in a team and often with opponents “.
So for take part in a competition It means fielding values, get involved it means to live a stimulating experience“.
Defeat and victory are “masters in equal measure because it is the game itself that teaches” Growing, educating, training young people inspired by these values produce “great results, on and off the pitch”.