- Автор: Янев Иван
- Язык: болгарский
- Жанр: Классическая проза
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2001–2007 г.)
The Sport Club Vitosha has played and continues to play a decisive role for the practice, development and sustainability of the sport among the people with disabilities and especially for those with visual impairment. Even though at certain moments the management of the organization is sharply expresses themselves, it can be clamed with a high degree of certainty that it does not have outright enemies. An old truth is that junction creates strength, but namely, that maxim renders the people most difficult. Vitosha has proved with its activity to everything and everybody that in no way will it step back from its principles for the development of sport among people in unequal status. Of course, the organization is quite convinced that it is necessary to have different approaches for different sports, because the needs of every single sport are different and specific (i.e.: a generalization cannot be made here). Some are the specifics of the collective sports, and others are the specifics for individual sports.
However, for that short historical period the organization established its vision as a factor which all should consider. Vitosha has proved that it works straightforwardly and that it does not get influenced by juncture changes. They have proved that they fight for the cause persistently and consecutively because the Renaissance and development of the Bulgarian goalball is a cause, and not an ordinary caprice.
Together with their cause Vitosha has developed other activities that one day will also potentially contribute to its positive image. However, at the current stage they should be grateful to the goalball cause because otherwise the organization could not have had the current positions that are quite favorable for useful follow-up work. Now, when Bulgaria is already a full member of the European Union, all are waiting for the conditions to change and for the so-called lobby (which until now in Bulgaria can be equalized to the concept relations which were popular until 1989 and after that) to take effect. Goalball should lobby on a European scale if it wants to keep and enlarge the position that it has managed to conquer for these few years. Even though the norms and regulations provide a decent sport activity for people with disabilities, in practice things are mostly unacceptable for a regular sport activity.
However, there is no way not to feel proud of the fact that a non-governmental organization with such a short existence has succeeded to restore and develop the only collective sport for visually impaired people that has been practiced in Bulgaria. Behind it is the organization and administration of eight complete goalball competitions, seven of which are with international participation, and three of which are Open Goal ball Tournaments for the Cup of Bulgaria.
It must be pointed out that everything possible is being done for the development of chess for the sightless. Its members have participated in tournaments abroad more than once, and have hosted and organized tournaments more than once as well. It is true that chess does not yet have the same solid position as goalball, but it is also true that its practice in the Club started at a later stage. Nonetheless, chess has favorable premises to go through a qualitative and successful development at least because of the fact that activists from the organization have already gained the organizational experience which they were lacking when they established the Club.
Salsa is also receiving understanding on the behalf of the management, but the salsa-dancers need to decide on their own which way for them is more difficult and which way is more correct — the way of their belonging to the organization, the way of autonomy or the way of independence. Whatever they decide the organization will understand and support them.
Integration is a quite large and difficult topic, so that undoubtedly the organization also has large area for action. This is because the integration part of a sport can be: educational, employment-related and, maybe most importantly, social. A leading motive for the activity of Vitosha in the future is undoubtedly the enlargement of its international contacts. The golden key for solving a large part of the problems faced by people with disabilities in Bulgaria is hidden internationally. This is because good practices exist in Europe and in the world — they simply have to be studied and adapted for Bulgarian conditions!
After Bulgaria becomes a member of the European Union friends of goalball can only hope and work for the upwards change of the status quo of the sport. The people in Bulgaria from which the development of sports depends have proved that they are absolute scholars in terms of goalball but they are not able to find the heal-all for its correct development. The hopes of all are related to the EU which should place tangible pressure on the Government to regularly REGULATE AND develop sports among people with disabilities.
In Bulgaria there are two schools for children with visual impairment. Neither of them have the appropriate base for goalball activity. Where then can that sport be developed? Why for so many years was it not possible to provide the conditions for the sport’s teachers in both schools in order to teach the students about goalball? When will our Government stop turning society against people with disabilities by throwing media bombs stating that it is doing many things for them? Of course, the Government does not have money for this, and the minorities and people of unequal status are guilty of this as well. However, the difference between us and the so-called developed countries is that developed countries have understood that no matter whether one has a disability or not, or whether one has the origin of a minority or not, if he/she has potential that potential should be developed from and for the advancement of the country.
Goalball deserves its place in the family of sports in Bulgaria because it is the only collective sport for the visually impaired that is developing in Bulgaria, and because it is exclusively attractive. Last but not least, it is a sport that is not adapted for visually impaired but it is designed especially for those people. People without visual impairment can also participate in goalball but of course only in non-official matches because IBSA forbids people without similar types of disabilities to practice it at official forums. That organization should very soon break its conservatism because it will be of a great advantage for goalball if it finds followers among people without visual impairments. There are no problems which exist for goalball to be practiced by sighted people, because all playing goalball are obliged to wear eye-shades (i.e.: all are in equal conditions). Vitosha will continue to advocate for that point of view of the members in front of IBSA and maybe one day there will be also players without visual impairment at official competitions.
Unfortunately, a whole goalball generation is passing away to which a chance to completely show and develop its abilities and potential was not given. It is also unfortunate that in the schools there are no conditions to work for the goalball and in the near future it is not possible to see deserving change for the current talented generation.