TAFISA WORLD CONGRESS 2015
Sport for All – The Ultimate Legacy
Parallel Session 1
Beyond the Bright Lights
A National Diagnosis of Sports and the creation of a National System of Sport in Brazil
Abstract
Sport in Brazil is going through a fruitful and unprecedented moment. It is often heeded it is the Decade of Sport due to major events hosted by the country, in a period started in 2007-with the Pan American Games-that will culminate with the 2016 Olympic Games.
In addition, several social sectorshave been thinking about the access and management of sport in a country of continental dimensions and a population of over 204 million. Aiming to take advantage of the tangible and intangible legacies of this moment, theMinistry of Sportslead a coordinated action, gathering specialists from private and governmental areas, civil organizations, sports federations and confederations to create the National System of Sport. The guidelines were: raising the state of the art, developing diagnosis and connecting sectors and Ministries.Above all, consider sport ina wider form, beyond competition, paying attention to the sport for all and focusing on its various expressions and types of public.
Many references were used to design the System such as international models of recognized local structures, outcomes from National Conferences and the deep analysis of existing legislation. In order to support and generate basic indicators from the joint effort between universities, public and private institutions-such as SESC-a National Diagnosis of Sport was completedwith four elected variables: i) sports infrastructure; ii) financing; iii) legislation and iv) practitionersor non-practitionersof sport and physical activity. After consulting 8,902 Brazilians, the survey showed that in spite of 54.1% of the population declared to bepractitioners of sport or physical activity at the time of reference, yet 67 million Brazilians do not include the practice in daily life.
The survey also unveiled the most sedentaryregion/state; the sedentary tendency with increasing age (between 65 and 74 years, 64.4% are not practitioners); the main causes forleaving behind (69.8% reported lack of time);preferred modalities (highlight to walking and football) and the most usedspaces for the practice (61.5% use sports facilities). Thus, we observe that in addition to the commitment in the directive groundingand the structural preparationfor the Olympic Games Rio 2016, we still have a lot to do to assure that the Brazilian population has, in fact, guaranteedaccess to Sport and Physical Activity, a right quoted in the Brazilian Constitution. With emphasis, the sport is recognized in its broad spectrum and the National System didactically appointsas "Sports Formation", "Sports Excellence" and "Sport for Life".
The talks in this scenario require the sum of efforts of several areas, notably Sport, Health and Education with intersectoral articulation and partnerships at various levels. Strategically, the focus and standpoint is the continuity of policies already created, the decentralization of management and reducing bureaucracy of processes for: i) creating public policies that enable inclusion and access to Sport, ii) promotion of Physical Activity in primary health care and consequently prevention of disease intensified by sedentariness and, iii) greater influence of School Physical Education to qualify experiences during the educational period and create a motivating and enjoyable link with diverse practices that may be incorporated and evoked during the stages of life.