Simon Friis is a former handball player who is now a lawyer and player advisor. He discusses matchfixing in handball and how education can help fix this problem. A survey of team visits found that 74% of players bet more than twice a week and 76% bet on their own sport. Only 3% said they would be more careful about insider information in the future. Dual careers are important for players' unions to focus on, to help players build a life after sports. Many former NFL and NBA players go bankrupt shortly after retiring due to a lack of financial planning for their post-career lives.

1. Simon Friis
Former handball player in
Roskilde, SG Flensburg‐Handewitt, Hildesheim, AG København
Now:
Lawyer
And:
Player advisor Board member Generel secretary

2. Matchfixing
Dual career

3. Matchfixing
How bad is it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gUd2HQCpn0

4. Is there Matchfixing in our sport?

6. How do WE fix it?
• Education
• EU Athletes – Protect integrity
http://www.protect‐integrity.com/
http://www.interpol.int/Crime‐areas/Integrity‐
in‐Sport/Integrity‐in‐sport

7. The results from team visits
• Betting more than 2 times a week 74 %
• Betting on your own sport 76 %
• Betting against your self 0%
• Will be more carefull on insider information in
the future 3 % SAID NO!!

8. Dual Career
• The biggest social responsibility players unions
have.
• Building a LIFE, not just a career after sport
• http://www.4‐player.dk/

9. Economical situation of athletes at the end
of their career
• NFL – 78 % went bankrupt 2 years after the end of their
career
• NBA – 60 % went bankrupt 5 years after the end of their
career
• German soccer players – 25 % have more debts than property
• German ex‐players – 91 % of them has to work in order to
survive

10. PDM Projects
• EU Athletes
• We have to take best practise, and then tailor
make it for handball.

11. The goal and purpose
• We must build a better, stronger and safer
sport together