In May, the Swedish Sports Confederation will be held in Uppsala, where the Swedish Sports Confederation's member federation will meet to make decisions on various issues.
For this meeting, the Swedish Ice Hockey Association, together with ten other associations (bandy, basketball, motorsport, boxing, wrestling, archery, cycling, golf, handball and the motorcycle and snowmobile association) have written a motion where they want the meeting to determine how much of it state support that will go directly to the special unions and associations.
“We propose a redistribution of at least five percent of the state support (approximately SEK 100 million) from the joint superstructure to the financial framework for us unions.
We want the meeting to establish the premise that each federation best knows how the support is useful and what initiatives are required in their sport to contribute to the overall goals.
In other words, fewer forms and "pointers" from RF and more trust in us members simply ", writes the hockey association's chairman Anders Larsson in a column on the ice hockey association's website.
Doubled staff costs in RF
Anders Larsson further writes in his column that he believes that the development within RF has gone in the wrong direction, and that the money does not go where it is needed most.
Among other things, he mentions that in RF's annual report from 2019, it is possible to read about community initiatives of SEK 100 million.
In parallel, staff costs for RF have doubled centrally in ten years and it is remarkable that the number of employees in the RF part of the RF / SISU districts has increased by as much as 68 percent (!) In the last five-year period.
There are now a total of 800 employees in the RF / SISU superstructure who increasingly carry out "order assignments" from the state instead of protecting us members and the interests of sports ", writes Larsson, and further develops:
“We simply now need a clear and focused RF / SISU that
coordinates
,
supports
,
represents
,
educates
and
forms
the overall sport in the country.
But that said, we must agree and state that it is in the associations and with us in the federations that the sport itself
is led
,
conducted
and
developed
. ”
Anders Larsson further writes that his union is forced to withdraw investments because they have not received the money they believe they need.
“In ice hockey, we could already painfully note last year that the federal support for us was greatly reduced.
As a result, we were forced to reduce the level of ambition in ice hockey's successful recruitment efforts to get more children, girls and boys, to Tre Kronor's hockey school ”.
SVT Sport has sought RF's chairman Björn Eriksson.