Sady: Football clubs must cap their annual budgets and reduce wages – Algerian Dialogue
The Minister of Sports, Mr. Walid Sadi, announced today, Thursday, that he recently met with representatives of the national companies that own or contribute to professional football clubs in a meeting with the aim of studying the situation of professional football, a meeting that led to the development of a preliminary road map whose provisions will begin to be implemented starting in January. 2025.
The Minister explained, during a plenary session of the National People’s Assembly devoted to asking oral questions, that this coordination meeting with representatives of national companies that own or contribute to professional football clubs, which is part of the sports sector project in the field of monitoring the bodies supervising sports in Algeria, concluded: “ Several offers were presented by representatives of these national economic companies that own or contribute to professional football clubs, as they have become more spenders of public money.
Walid Sadi said, “This initial road map focused, in its financial aspect, on the need for clubs to commit to making efforts to reduce wage burdens with the beginning of the 2025-2026 sports season, and to pledge to ceiling their annual budget and review it to a reasonable extent.”
As for the sports level, the meeting led to the formulation of an investment plan based on the implementation of training projects and the establishment of academies for groups under 11, 13, and 15 years of age, starting from January 2025, while it was decided at the organizational level, to develop a specific model for the structural organization of professional sports clubs and to rely on the best competencies in management. Starting from the beginning of next year, company representatives are asked to provide an analysis of the current situation from the legal, financial, administrative and sporting aspects in order to study it and take action. necessary corrective measures in this regard.”
In the same session, the Minister also addressed the file of combating corruption in the sports sector, in response to a question by one of the representatives about the strategy developed by the Ministry of Sports to combat this phenomenon. He said, “The Ministry will not hesitate to combat corruption in all its forms, whether at the central level or the institutions under its guardianship, as well as at the level of organizing structures and activating athletes, by developing an annual inspection program that is implemented by the Ministry’s General Inspectorate and includes central and non-centralized administration.”
He was keen to stress that his ministerial department “will seek to work in complete transparency with the supreme national authority to prevent and combat corruption in the field of training, awareness-raising and data exchange, as well as updating the legal system in line with the requirements of protecting public funds and coordinating the rules of integrity in the management of this money, along the lines of the project The executive decree that specifies the methods of funding and monitoring the organizational structures and athletes’ activation, which requires the methods of financing and the study of its requests.”
During the plenary session of the National People’s Assembly, which was devoted to asking oral questions to a number of members of the government, the Minister of Sports also answered some of the concerns of the representatives, including those who requested the need to give special attention to the sports sector in the Far South region, where “sports practice has become almost non-existent due to the slightest “The capabilities, including the financial ones, and the lack of the human element that also governs the youth of the region.”
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