SPORT 1913 - 2013

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A new page was turned in the history of the CSIT when the CWCIE from China joined the organization as a candidate member in 2010 and as a associate member in 2011. This raised the number of memberships by a huge 200 million. Of course, it is necessary to em- phasize in this connection that the CWCIE re- lies on close partners such as trade and labour unions (Burghardt 2012) but these people could not be regarded as the same kind of individual members as those of the traditional sport clubs. Therefore, those involved in the sport programs of the CWCIE are called “registered clients” in this study. On the other hand, the traditional individual members can also be regarded as cli- ents of the organization they belong to. The case of the CWCIE is similar to two other CSIT member organizations: the Brazil- ian SESI (490 million) and the Mexican INDET (2.500 million). The latter one has no sport clubs as its members because it carries out its programs with the assistance of its 32 state delegations, which is equivalent to the num- ber of states of the republic. In addition, the INDET has created altogether 189 municipal delegations to strengthen the implementation of its local sport programs for working popu- lation in 2010. The state and municipal dele- gations work on a voluntary basis (Meza 2012). By and large, the biggest changes in the number of individual members were related, as it was mentioned above, to the breakdown of the former Soviet PROFSPORT and the new member, the Chinese CWCIE. In addition, the Italian UISP in particular, but also the Italian

Congress in Rio de Janeiro in 1999 (CSIT 1999). For years, it functioned as a model of collabo- ration for the continental members and the CSIT. Currently, the COPADET members come from Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Panama, Puerto Rico, the USA and Mex- ico (Meza 2012). Worthwhile to mention is that the INDET hosted the high-profile CSIT General Assem- bly 2003 in Mexico City along with the COPA- DET. The opening ceremony was presided over by the President of the Republic of Mex- ico Mr. Vicente Fox who also addressed a speech to the delegates as did the CSIT Presi- dent at that time, Mr. Kalevi Olin. The candi- date members of the CSIT are the FNSPT from Congo, the WSFI from India and the HIS from Turkey. The applicant members are the ICSF from India, the WOF from Iran and the ZZBSS from Slovenia. As we can see in table 2, the CSIT member or- ganizations had altogether 53.234 million in- dividual members at the end of 1990. The fig- ure changed dramatically when the PROFSPORT broke down along with the col- lapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991. The number of so-called traditional individu- al members fell down to 3.720 million. During the next 20 years, the figure of 24 member or- ganizations studied here grew to 5.270 mil- lion. If taking into account the registered cli- ents of three member unions working on Individual Members form the Organization

institutional bases (the CWCIE, the INDET and the SESI), the total number of people con- nected with the CSIT at the end of 2010 were altogether 208.260 million. The biggest traditional member organi- zations at the end of 2010 were the Italian UISP (1.280 million) and the Austrian ASKÖ (1.200 million). The number of memberships of ASKÖ include tourism. A very fast develop- ment was seen in three Italian CSIT members. They had altogether over 2.810 million indi- vidual members in 2010. The UISP has more than doubled its memberships from 0.600 million in 1990 to 1.280 million in 2010. The AICS has increased individual memberships from 0.200 million in 1990 to 0.860 million in 2010. Worthwhile to notice is that the amount of individual members of the Dutch NCS was more than four times bigger in 2010 (0.197 million) than it was in 1990 (0.045 million). Also, the HAPOEL from Israel has increased its memberships from 0.130 million to 0.150 million. The rest of the member organizations clearly have less individual members, with amounts varying from 0.075 million (the Dan- ish DAI) to 0.009 million (the Bulgarian BWFS, the Belgian AFSTB) and to 0.004 million (the Swedish RSLU) in 2010. On the other hand, table 2 proves that some CSIT member organizations have also lost individual members: the Finnish TUL fell from 0.495 million in 1990 to 0.280 in 2010, the French FSGT from 0.260 in 1990 to 0.148 in 2010 and the Danish DAI from 0.084 in 1990 to 0.075 in 2010. (See Table 2, page 118.)

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