Political interference in the sport associations in the countries of the Western Balkans

ABSTRACT:The goal of this paper is to explain the existence and the level of political interference in theactivities and programmers of the sport associations in the countries of the Western Balkans. The influence of the politics into the activities of the sport associations is usually negative and it is misused for political purposes. Politics destroys the sport spirit and demotivates young people to work on their sport career, instrumental zing them for political interests. The political interference into the sport associations is very evident in the countries of the so-called Western Balkans and it hampers on the Euro integration processes of the candidate and potential candidate countries. The main conclusions which we want to draw from this paper, is to prove that there is a high level of political interference in the work and activities of the sport associations in the countries of the Western Balkans, but also to try to find adequate solutions for a reduction or marginalization of these interference.