MADRID, 10 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The ‘UEFA Football Board’, a group of current and former elite footballers and coaches, will meet this Monday at the House of European Football in Nyon (Switzerland) to discuss various topics related to women’s football, in a meeting in which the Spanish Alexia Putellas and Vero Boquete will be there.
As explained by UEFA, the members of the ‘UEFA Football Board’ were selected “based on their outstanding achievements in clubs or national teams, their solid international reputation and their extensive experience.”
In addition to the Spanish Putellas and Boquete, there will also be the English Karen Carney, Gemma Grainger and Leah Williamson; the Swedes Magdalena Eriksson, Jonas Eidevall and Lotta Schelin; the French Laura Georges and Eugénie Le Sommer; the Norwegian Ada Hegerberg; the German Josephine Henning; the Serbian Jovana Damnjanovic; the Italian Carolina Morace; the Danish Pernille Harder; the Belgian Tessa Wullaert; the Portuguese Francisco Neto; Northern Irish Marissa Callaghan; and the Austrian Viktoria Schnaderbeck.
The meeting agenda will include talks on refereeing issues such as the UEFA line of intervention, VAR and handball, as well as competition issues and football medicine, as well as the strategy for UEFA women’s football post-2024.
This event is the second meeting of the ‘UEFA Football Board’ after the one that took place earlier this year. These meetings will be an annual event on UEFA’s calendar, but members will also meet “when necessary,” UEFA says.
Approved by the UEFA Executive Committee in April, the advisory body was created to give “an institutional but independent voice of experience and knowledge on fundamental issues related to women’s football, such as the rules of the game, refereeing, match calendar and player welfare, as well as UEFA’s women’s football strategy.
UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin highlighted that many of the participants in this meeting “paved the way for all the successes in women’s football that we are seeing today across the continent.” “The experience and expertise of this board will play a critical role in ensuring continued growth and success based on inclusion, equality and excellence, not only in Europe but around the world,” he said.
For her part, UEFA General Director of Women’s Football, Nadine Kessler, praised the initiative. “I am delighted and grateful that such a powerful and respected group of players and coaches are coming together to help us evaluate today’s game and shape tomorrow’s game. There is much more to do, and their voices must be heard and listened to,” she concluded. she.