Erding's lack of interest in the association is disappointing

Created: 11/19/2022, 1:00 p.m

By: Dieter Priglmeir

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Only every tenth club sent delegates to the district council.

The BLSV board didn't deserve that.

Today's topic is a bit cumbersome, because the Bavarian State Sports Association (BLSV) doesn't score any goals or win any medals.

He is simply there and makes sure that more than four million people in Bavaria can play sports in well-organized clubs with trained trainers and in great sports facilities and are also insured.

He doesn't even provide illustrious anecdotes, except perhaps in the years after the war, when the district had no luck with its chairmen.

The very first, Rudolf Streibl from Dorfen, had to retire after a few months for health reasons.

The second had a very, very big problem with the legislature after what was called “obscure business”.

That was once told by Dr.

Wilhelm Funke, the third Erdinger BLSV boss, has a much better reputation and has been in office for 15 years.

He was known for reading the riot act to club chairmen.

For example, when he noticed the envious reaction of other clubs at the first presentation of the fairness prize in 1958 to the Eittinger football men and the Moosinninger youth and described it as "shameful", "because not a single one said constructively, only derogatory things".

Are you still there, dear readers?

phew

I hope that's still more than ten percent.

That is the poor quota of the Erdinger BLSV district assembly in 2022. Only 13 of the 126 sports clubs have sent delegates (22 in total) to the event, which only takes place every five years and in which the new head of Erdinger sports is elected?

What would Dr.

said spark?

His verdict would certainly not have been as mild as that of Upper Bavaria's BLSV boss Claudia Daxenberger, who explained this with the uncertainty caused by Corona and told of similarly poorly attended district councils in other districts.

Well, there is actually little evidence of the corona-related restraint at other events.

The rate for the neighbors is not great either, but at least 34 of 140 clubs came to Freising.

13 out of 126 clubs, really?

Of the ten major clubs, only TSV Dorfen was there.

That's where you get confused.

Did something really go wrong?

Perhaps the Erdinger city clubs would have hoped for more from BLSV boss Martin Weber in the discussion about the cold showers in the city's sports facilities than a casual saying at the CSU regulars' table that warm water was not always found in his youth.

But hey, even the club officials have not exactly leaned out of the window on this topic and – at least not publicly – sought confrontation with the political decision-makers.

No, Martin Weber and his team have done a really good job over the past five years.

Not only when it comes to grants and subsidies.

He also tirelessly promotes the training of trainers and, despite the shortage of halls, always finds a way to organize these courses on site, because nobody likes to go to the sports school in Oberhaching.

And if an ambitious trainer wants to complete the sports badge with his entire youth team, then the speakers are already there with a stopwatch and long jump calculator.

Weber is also a frequent and welcome guest in the “House of Sports” because – as the employees there confirm – he is committed to his Erdinger clubs, but he also engages the employees there with his own empathy for himself and for Erdinger Sport appreciate their expertise.

It is not for nothing that he himself calls the "House of Sport" the "House of Knowledge".

And he knows what's going on in the clubs at home anyway, because he or his representatives never miss an annual general meeting to which they are invited.

This is not the case the other way around.

With all understanding for the heavy work of the club officials - such a lack of interest is disappointing and not appropriate to the commitment of the BLSV volunteers.

Incidentally, up until yesterday none of the clubs not present had contacted Weber and explained their absence, let alone excused them.

So much for the human side.

Here's the pragmatic approach: It's not good if the head of Erdinger Sports is only elected by ten percent of the clubs.

Even if the election was unanimous, the low turnout doesn't exactly give him the courage to speak or negotiate with local politicians about grants for sport in the future.

"We're already taking note of something like that," said Rainer Mehringer, deputy district administrator, on the sidelines of the district council.

In his greeting earlier, he had already indicated that after the Corona years, the struggle for free funds would be much more fierce in the district.

It's not just sport that has needs, and other institutions are much more powerful.

At the district fire brigade day, for example, almost all fire brigades are represented.

But maybe it's just the way a really outraged club representative put it: "We seem to be doing far too well."