SPORT 1913 - 2013

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Table 3. The number of sport clubs/local units of 21 member organizations of the CSIT in ranking order (RO) with the country at the end of 2010 (Olin 2012).

In 2010, the Austrian ASKÖ had altogeth- er 4 500 and the French FSGT 4 200 sport clubs. In the former one, the amount had in- creased by 1 116 in 20 years and in the latter one by 400 clubs (cf. Olin 1992, 23). On the other hand, the Finnish TUL had lost 550 sport clubs since 1990 (Olin 1992, 23) because it had re-checked all its clubs and excluded those not functioning any more. The Algerian FAST (N=1 500) and the Finnish TUL (N=1 100), however, belonged to those CSIT members which had over 1 000 sport clubs. The Danish DAI had 750, the Estonian JOUD 743, the Bel- gian FROS 580 and the Tunisian ONCST 470 sport clubs. Then came in ranking order the member organizations with less than 300 clubs or local units: the Irish AAI 280, the Is- raeli HAPOEL 270, the Belgian AFSTB 195, the Mexican INDET 189, the Swiss SATUS and the Angolan UNTA 180, the Dutch NCS 167, the Swedish RSLU 29, the Romanian CSE 12 and the Bulgarian BWFS 10. As we can see in table 3 and as mentioned above, data from 14 CSIT member organiza- tions was missing. This partly depends on the different structures of the sport club or local- level culture in different countries. Some member organizations have had difficulties or it has been even impossible for them to give exact figures concerning their local sport units. For example, at the end of 2010, the Rus- sian MKSO had altogether 40 sport organiza- tions as members. but they were from the Commonwealth of Independent States (Roga- tin 2012).

AICS and ACSI as well as the Austrian ASKÖ have evidently been able to create, renew and develop remarkably attractive sport programs. At the same time, they have got a significant number of new individual members. Thus there seems to be grounds to rec- ommend to the other CSIT members to be- come familiar with the Austrian and the Ital- ian sport programs. It is known that these unions have been able to modernize their strategies and programs to serve population groups of different ages by combining tradi- tional human movement in new ways, for ex- ample with music, art and design as well as fashion. In table 3, we found that 21 member organiza- tions of the CSIT studied here had altogether 48 155 sport clubs or other types of local units functioning to achieve the settled goals and objectives in 2010. However, data from 14 members were missing, as will be mentioned later. The Italian members clearly had the big- gest number of sport clubs in their organiza- tions: the UISP 17 000, the AICS 9 000 and the ACSI 6 800. Thus out of all the sport clubs, two thirds – that is 32 800 clubs – belonged to these three Italian member organizations. Also, it was found that the UISP, in a period from 1990 (Olin 1992, 23) to 2010, had increased the amount of its sport clubs the most, namely by 2 000. (See Table 3.) Sport Clubs and Local Units as Social Capital

Country

Member Sportclubs/ local units

RO

Italy Italy Italy

UISP AICS ACSI ASKÖ FSGT FAST

17.000 1. 9.000 2. 6.800 3. 4.500 4. 4.200 5. 1.500 6. 1.100 7.

Austria France Algeria Finland

TUL DAI

Denmark

750 8. 743 9. 580 10. 470 11. 280 12. 270 13. 195 14. 189 15. 180 16. 180 16. 167 17. 29 18. 12 19. 10 20.

Estonia

JOUD

Belgium FROS

Tunisia Ireland

ONCST

AAI

Israel

HAPOEL

Belgium AFSTB

Mexico

INDET

Switzerland SATUS

Angola

UNTA

Netherlands NCS

Sweden Romania Bulgaria TOTAL

RSLU 2)

CSE

BWFS

48.155

1) The number indicates the amount of voluntary municipal delgations in the country. 2) Data from Rajavouri-Ludvigsen (2012).

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