The ban on contact between players, the closure of collective locker rooms and the abolition of snacks in order to limit the spread of the coronavirus had been right, at the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, of the motivation of around fifty licensees of the Toulouse Montaudran Football Club, named after a district of the capital of Haute-Garonne. But, thanks to the implementation, from mid-2021, of the Sport Pass, Olivier Reuland, its president, observed a return of the licensees on the lawn of the Gonin stadium.
The leader says shoot “a very positive assessment of this aid” of 50 euros, instituted under the impetus of the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron, and which can benefit, under conditions, young children and young adults (between 6 and 30 years old). In this case, seventy children and teenagers from the Toulouse Montaudran Football Club benefit from this boost for the 2022-2023 season in this club with 250 members, including 160 young people aged 5 to 16.
“It brings me new young people, which allows me to significantly renew my workforce,” adds Olivier Reuland about an allowance which the government wants to make, on the occasion of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, one of the levers to encourage the practice of sport.
Retaining licensees and encouraging discouraged athletes to return to the gymnasium are the two main reasons that led Caroline Demessence from Tarbes Pyrénées Handball, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, to “watering all parents with emails to present the system”. “I even advertised it on Wednesdays at the time of registration. Because a third of the licensees were entitled to it “adds the club secretary, who sees another benefit in the Sport Pass: “There is a definite return of money to our coffers. And this is not negligible in this period, with the cost of gasoline soaring. »
Volunteer dynamic
However, his efforts are timidly rewarded. In 2021, nine young athletes were able to deduct from the price of the annual license, set at 75 euros, the sum of 50 euros. In 2022, there are twice as many. But of the club’s 122 licensees, this remains low. However, the volunteer dynamic is not discouraged: “I wet the jersey because my carrot is that the kid comes to training. »
The results are also mixed for the Stade Toulousain Rugby association, with 659 players divided into fourteen teams who train on the two synthetic pitches of the Ernest-Wallon stadium: between 80 and 90 young athletes benefit from the Sport Pass.
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