According to the president, the concern about children’s and young people’s hobby expenses, for example, is growing even more with the government’s recent budget cuts. Niinistö has also noted the Helsinki phenomenon from the domestic football league.
President Sauli Niinistö visited on Tuesday evening the Super nest fight between Sotkamo’s Jymy and Hamina’s Ballers in Töölö in Helsinki. Niinistö, who finished his tenure, had the honor of taking the opening kick of the match.
“It’s pretty exciting that I can still hit the ball even lazily”, Niinistö, 75, chatted for a while before the h-moment.
“But if there’s a rush, it can probably be considered a tactical mistake,” he continued with a smile.
Between Niinistö, who is known to be sporty, had some time to talk about the burning sports topics of the day – above all, the government’s recent decision to cut several tens of millions of euros from the state’s sports budget.
“Concern about the future of clubs and sports is definitely growing,” Niinistö underlined.
“I have been worried about the multiplication of the costs of sports activities for a long time, and these difficult decisions will not make the situation any easier in the least. The concern is also great because at the same time it is – quite understandably – challenging for people to commit to volunteer work, which has been one of the cornerstones of our sport.”
Sauli Niinistö had his eyes firmly on the ball.
Olympic Committee is its CEO Taina Susiluoto found the government’s decision shocking.
“It will be difficult. But in any case, my main concern is still how we can get children and young people to move around with game consoles and cell phones,” Niinistö stressed.
“You don’t always need special performance venues or clubs to move around. Even basic exercise, such as climbing trees, needs to be believable, because that’s the only way young people get excited about exercise and it becomes a way of life for them.”
Now his term of office after finishing, Niinistö says that he enjoys, among other things, roller skating and tennis.
“In the summer, I’m definitely going to move again with rollers, for example,” he said.
The ex-chairman of the Finnish Football Association also says that he does bench sports regularly. He plans to follow, among other things, the World Cup in ice hockey and the European Championship in football.
“And yes, domestic football is also interesting. So this [Veikkausliigan] The runner-up Gnistan is a rare interesting case,” Niinistö surprised.
“A great story, when a club that started from humble beginnings was able to grow to the dimensions of the main league. I haven’t been to Gnistan’s game yet, but I plan to go during the summer.”
President Niinistö hit the ball with his second attempt.
This one after Niinistö headed to the field to hit the opening shot. With the first one, the president hit the buzzer, but with the second one, he got thunderous applause from the large audience.
“I had to see if the field was moving,” Niinistö said in an on-field interview about his opening shot.
“Baseball is our national game. A big piece of Finnishness, which is currently highly valued in the world.”
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