Korfebol in Brazil

Marcelo the pioneer from Brazil, informs us about a new initiative:
In the project that has been used for reception of resources, an image of what would be the Municipal Park: a great sporting compound. / Reproduction
Servant in January for a group of entrepreneurs, authorities and sportsmen, with the objective of creating conditions so that Petrópolis is benefitted by sporting events as the World cup of 2014 (Brazil 2014) and the Olympic Games, in Rio, in 2016 (Rio 2016), the Sporting Movement of Petrópolis (MEP) it already got to collect R$ 10 million for investments in the preparation of the city to receive delegations and selections that will need an appropriate space to accomplish trainings. "This value is already approved by the Federation of Athletics of Rio de Janeiro. It is a budget that would be addressed for another city, in the Fluminense North, and that we got to address for Petrópolis", it explains to the general coordinator of the Sporting Movement of Petrópolis, Cláudio Roche, that is president of the company Allen Informática, that brought for Petrópolis the Center of Microsoft and it began the movement to have Petrópolis as sub-thirst of the sporting events of international load.

The largest challenge of the group is to recruit resources inside for the construction of sporting facilities of the international patterns, among the ones which a sporting compound, built in agreement with the prerequisites of the International Olympic Committee (COI), in the area of the Park of Exhibitions, in Itaipava. The sporting compound is composed by stadium for athletics; arena multiuso for five thousand people, with center of conventions; swimming pool Olympic cover; center of sporting medicine; academy university of the Sport; library and museum of the sport; hotel of traffic with accommodation for 50 people; area for gymnastics for third age and sporting initiation. In agreement with the representatives of MEP, the projects are fundamental to enable Petrópolis as candidate to receive soccer selections that will dispute the Cup of the Confederations in 2013, the World cup in 2014 and the Cup of America in 2015.

For so much, the group will look for resources with investors, deprived initiative and budgets made possible through the law of fiscal incentive to the sport. The group created four new tools for reception of resources for sporting entities associated to MEP. Among these it is the Club of Sponsors of MEP (P-30), that foresees the sale of 30 patronage quotas, being 10 in the category Bronze; 10 in the category Silver; and 10 in the category Gold. "Before even of the release, we are already with four sold quotas. The first ones to acquire the quotas were Allen Informática, Acorp of Brazil, Unimed and Pled Bhering. To the whole they are 30 quotas. Besides, we created the mark "domP", to produce uniforms of sporting entities associated to the movement, as well as of employees of companies; the official fan of the Highland, that it is a kit, with shirt and cap official of the team, a clothes sporting "domP" and a card personalized for entrance in the games; and the Athlete Official Foot of Wind, kit with the new shirt and cap official Foot of Wind, exclusive bottle and personalized" card, explains to the director of businesses of MEP, João Henrique Areias.

In the category Bronze, each annual quota of patronage costs R$ 36 thousand; in the category silver, the annual quota can be acquired by R$ 48 thousand and in the category gold, each quota annual cost R$ 60 thousand. The members of the movement stress that besides associating the mark to a linked image to the sport, the company will be present also in social projects of impact close to communities of the city, through actions of social inclusion and education for the sport, sporting leisure, sporting initiation and sport for the third age. Among the activities accomplished by MEP in partnership with the City hall is Petrópolis Saúde and Leisure. We will "have a social-sporting event, with athletic orientation and of health. We will also have the leisure Street, that has the objective of to strengthen that movement and to create in the population the habit for the sport, not only to condition the athletes, but also to stimulate the sporting practice in the population, improving like this the quality of the people's" life, it considers the municipal secretary of Sports, Carlos Alberto Lanceta.

JAQUELINE RIBEIRO
Composition Tribune