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"en.20041201.16.3-170"2
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"Mr President, Commissioner, there is a danger that the way in which sport is developing in the European Union will result in the weakening of its educational and social character. The social function of sport, which is its more general interest, has been damaged for some years now by the appearance of new phenomena, which have caused the application of fair play, overall action and the development of the sporting ideal to be questioned. Violence at football grounds, following a period of quiet, has revived over the last two years, with new trials for the most beloved of popular sports, football. Hooliganism is now being translated into racism at football grounds where black footballers are playing or in teams to which players from other races are transferred. There are signs of xenophobia and racism in that, apart from the chanting, banners and flags with emblems of the terrible past, full of hatred and incitement to terror, are also making their appearance.
The spread of doping and financial exploitation in relation to television rights and marketing have turned sport, and football in particular, into a field of competition and conflicting interests. Footballers' contracts in the post-Bosman era have taken on values of huge dimensions. The liberalisation of the market, which initially appeared to benefit clubs, has proven with the passage of time to be an unpleasant surprise, in that the so-called 'national product' has lost out.
In numerous European countries, especially over the last five years, another phenomenon has emerged which has led very well-known and historic clubs to bankruptcy but not to spending: ambitious plans, vain hopes, unpaid coaches and players, debts reaching as far as FIFA and UEFA.
The European Union of the 25 now faces a different prospect and the entry of the ten new Member States is creating the need for conditional harmonisation in the free movement of football players for the transitional period. UEFA is studying new ways of rescuing and producing new talent. That is why it is essential that the European Union cooperate with the competent ministries of the 25 on the completion of the plan for a national character."@en1
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