Budapest will be the card center of Europe
15.01.2023 09:45
Zsolt Csampa, the president of the Hungarian Sports Federation (MVSZ), signed a five-way agreement with the European Fencing Federation. According to the cooperation, Budapest will become the fencing center of Europe in the future.
He was there at the event Zsolt Gyulay, the Hungarian Olympic Committee also its president – the website of the domestic association reported about him.
The leadership of the European part of the fencing world gathered in Paris – the site of the Women’s and Men’s Dagger World Cup at the end of the week. Giorgio Scarsothe European Fencing Federation on the initiative of its recently elected president, the professionals developed a work program that, among other things, is about European nations moving forward in coaching training, the organization of joint training camps, and the unified international representation of the continent. Three countries with long traditions in the sport, Hungary, France and Italy, will take the main role in this, but Spain will also participate in the implementation of the plans.
“Our association has undertaken to host the international fencing training in the future.” said the hunfencing.hu page Psalm Csampa.
“In addition to the European confederation, the agreement on this was signed by the representative of the additional nation that the plan is to spread the project to the entire continent. We have also undertaken to solve the related professional, organizational and administrative tasks, we are looking forward to beautiful and useful work in representing our most traditional type of weapon.”
“I gratefully accepted the invitation of the Hungarian Fencing Association, and I consider it a great initiative to play a new role in our most successful Olympic sport.” Zsolt Gyulay stated on the website of the association.
“In addition, I met and talked with very high-ranking colleagues, because the Italian sports minister and the president of the French Olympic Committee were here. Of course, the Paris Olympics were also discussed during the negotiations. I was also able to meet with György Habsburg, our country’s ambassador to France, during the day in connection with this, so we are closing in on a really busy day.” he added.