Claims, revolutionary and visionary, Lise Klaveness (41 years old) is looking to make history on April 5 in the UEFA Executive Committee elections to be held in Lisbon. If she is elected, she will be the first woman in history to reach that moment of the highest body in European football.
A big challenge for a woman used to breaking glass ceilings. Former soccer player, lawyer and president of the Norwegian Football Federation, the Norwegian spoke exclusively for World of sports of the need to have women at the top levels of football in Europe: “I love football, it’s my life, and it happens to me like many other women. On the other hand, there are no top fields of management. It’s time to bring it back. The female perspective is needed in a sport where women’s teams never stop growing and where the percentage of federated women is getting closer and closer to them. It’s great and important that there candidate for the end and I hope to be chosen”, explained High school.
The president wonders why so far no woman has sought to enter this body – the German Nadine Kessler She is responsible for women’s football at UEFA but has no voice in men’s. This is the clearest symptom that something is going wrong and there is an incomprehensible exception.
“A lot of changes are happening in football, but there is a political and anti-democratic issue of not having female representation. I want to show everything we can do in football and how many necessary changes we can lead. There are many possibilities ,” he added. .
“We have a problem,” he said. Lise Klaveness about the lack of women in UEFA. “We have to put our ideas on the table, our critical thinking and face the problems of football from a female perspective because after many years of not listening to our voice, it is a problem of historical absence of justice.”
The Norwegian hopes to pave the way for other directives that “want to lead change but don’t dare because of a cultural issue. Football experiences a lot of changes and we must adapt to them.”
After becoming an international for his country on 73 occasions, High school he is now one of the most influential people in the world of football and has earned the trust of the president Alexander Ceferin. As president of football in Norway, he deals with both Odegaard, Haaland and Sorloth as in Ada Hegerberg, Ingrid Engen or Caroline Hansen, who was with him on the pitch. “It is a privilege to work in football and that is why our responsibility is to achieve equal opportunities,” he pointed out. And he said that “we have to learn to think differently, not to see if there is a man or a woman but a person regardless of their gender. In Spain there is a fantastic League and national team, they are at the top, and we must keep working to strengthen them.
As a great Barça fan, he celebrates the successes of the Barça team and the fact that a figure like Alexia Putellas which serves as a reference for girls.
Finally, High school He does not want to forget the episode he experienced at the last FIFA congress in Qatar, where he was very critical of the World Cup misunderstanding. “That World Cup was decided by 22 men in a closed room, it’s obviously going to be wrong,” he declared about how workers’ human rights were violated. “It was awarded under unacceptable conditions and with unacceptable consequences. I am often asked what it is like to work in a man’s world. I always answer: no, I do not work in the world of a man. Football belongs to all the boys and girls in the world”, he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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