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SHOW RESPECT is a not-for-profit association which has as its goal the support of all facets of the SHOW RESPECT campaign and the generation of funds for the campaign.

Professional sportsmen and sportswomen already have an important position as role models in all areas, and this will be the case in future too. One way of exercising this role model function is the launch and support of the SHOW RESPECT campaign.

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WAIPU Golden Player Award

A prize from the players for the players, that is the WAIPU Golden Player Award. Each year WAIPU invites all professional ice hockey players in the world to compose their best team of the year.

The approach is new. The main actors of the sport itself, which are the professional hockey players who can determine next time who should be among the best players in the world professional hockey leagues.

Professional ice hockey players love every award, be it from fans or media. But the recognition from a peer; another ice hockey player who knows what is required to perform and be successful in this game, that is the prize they covet the most, besides winning championships and cups, naturally…

WAIPU will organise the vote for the first time in 2011. Every year the world players' union, with the help from all of its associations distributes the ballots all over the world.

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19. May 2012 | ENG other languages
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on EU Conference on Sports Agents / WAIPU ready to take on responsibility
11/12/2011
EU Conference on Sports Agents / WAIPU ready to take on responsibility

WAIPU President Dr. Lucien W. Valloni attended the EU Conference on Sports Agents of 9 and 10 November 2011 in Brüssel / WAIPU is ready to take on responsibility

WAIPU President Dr. Lucien W. Valloni: "It was a good conference where the sport stakeholders were having discussions about the issue of sport agents. It was evident, that a solution needs to be found for this area to improve the activity of sport agents.

WAIPU has a clear position on the agent issue. WAIPU has an extremely critical opinion about the practice of players’ agents in general. A number of those agents seems to place their own interests above those of the players they represent.

An unnecessarily large amount of money disappears from professional hockey through agents.

WAIPU feels that it is time for a completely new approach in this field and is ready to put in place a monitor system of agents.

WAIPU wishes to set up together with IIHF a working group to tackle these problems.

WAIPU will continue to keep a critical eye on the activities of players’ agents.

WAIPU is optimistic that a regulation will solve part of the problems.

However, due to conflict of interst issues it is also clear that the players must have its say in the control of the agent since agents represents players.

Hence, we are of the opinion that WAIPU should be part of the solution and we are ready to implement a licencing/monitoring system for agents.

However, it is also clear that we need the help and involvment of IIHF to tacle this issue.

We strongly believe that we should look for a international system where WAIPU is the driving force controlling the agents and we need on national level our union members to lead the control system.

We are ready to implement such a system with the support of IIHF".