Our newspaper also reported on Shkos Hazazi’s tour last week, during which the opposition politician tried to assess how the energy crisis and the multiple increase in electricity and gas prices would affect local top-flight football clubs. He shared his experiences with the audience on Hazazi’s Facebook page.
According to these publications, the boiler that heats the floor of the Puskas Academy matches with hot water works without disturbance despite monstrous energy prices, and the Groupama Aréna turf, used by the defending champions and table leader Ferencváros, competing in the Europa League, is also heated.
It seems that not all clubs can afford this luxury, as the Bozsik Arena in Kispest was closed by Budapest Honvéd after Sunday’s match with Fradi, citing the energy crisis, greatly increased overhead costs and the resulting negative economic processes. Re-opening in January.
Some swimming pools used by the general public have long been closed. For example, the one in Dunabogdány did not open even in September, the one in Győr and the one in Csepel in mid-September, the one in Kazincbarcika on October 1st, and the one in Budaörs on November 1st, were closed indefinitely. a period.
Opposite it are the swimming pools that the operators are still hoping for, so they are only temporarily closed or closed. Thus, the Kispesti pool will not be open to visitors from December 19, 2022 until March 31, 2023, and the Városmajor pool in Buda and the MOM sports center will be closed for three months from January. The Komjádi-Császár pool, also in Buda, has not yet arrived, but it does not bode well that those who want to play sports have already encountered it in the past few days, and from now on they can only swim on weekends, and even then only in the pool which is 25 meters long.
The timing of the closing of the swimming pools in Kispest and Buda at the end of the year cannot be a coincidence, based on the fact that, according to an announcement at the beginning of November, “the State Secretariat for Sports will provide non-subsidies payable from government sources to operators of water facilities selected on the basis of surveys and consultations to reduce the additional operational burdens that are provided until the end of this calendar year.
What will happen from 2023, and what will happen to the pools that are not selected, is no longer being talked about.
Thus, in the midst of a crisis, citizens who have been forced to experience a series of economic hardships, and who are perhaps therefore more stressed than in peacetime, in order to at least be able to maintain their health, are left with sports that do not require institutional conditions. such as running or cycling. But these are not solutions for everyone – let’s think, for example, people with waist or joint problems – and, moreover, they are not necessarily healthy due to the increasingly cold weather as winter approaches.
So it appears that even in the midst of an energy crisis, the fact that while the government pays marginal attention even within sports to an area that could bring sporting opportunities closer to a wide cross-section of society, the focus remains on competitive sports.
Our editor-in-chief, Karolye Kasabaye, covered this on Trend FM’s Monday morning show, which you can listen to here:
