Conference Report Development through Football Sustaining the potential of the first African World Cup 23 – 24 April 2010 Vienna www.footballfordevelopment.net Conference Report Development through Football Sustaining the potential of the first African World Cup Table of contents Opening Session 4 Key note address 6 Opening Addresses 7 Plenary Session 1 10 Conference Day Two 23 Closing Plenary Session 25 Vienna Action Plan 28 List of Participants 29 Project Partners & Associates 30 IMPRINT © 2010 | Publisher: VIDC – Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation, Möllwaldplatz 5/3, A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Tel. +43 171 33594, Fax +43 171 33594-73, E-Mail:
[email protected] | www.vidc.org, www.fairplay.or.at | Written and collected by Phil Vasili | Editors: Bella Bello Bitugu, Kurt Wachter | Photos: Stefan Radvanyi / www.picturedb.at, Max Moser, Kurt Wachter / FairPlay-vidc | Graphic design: typothese.at / m.zinner grafik, Sanja Jelic This report has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The content of this report are the sole responsibility of VIDC and the respective project partners and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union. 2 Football for Development Preface Sports in general but football in particular have become phe- fan initiatives, players’ unions, sport organisations and media, nomenons that have huge potentials as channels and tools for academic institutions as well as governmental bodies including social development due to the huge number of people from di- national development agencies, United Nations and European verse backgrounds that they appeal to. They are fertile grounds Union institutions, from 27 different European and African to be used as platform to be used as social and development countries.