– We want our sons and daughters to meet our people’s movement with a feeling of being equally valuable. But they do not want that, they do not want to feel as much worth it, says Lise Klaveness. The football president is ready for the speech when NRK shows her the findings from the survey we presented on Sunday. Klaveness is well aware of the problem and believes it is high time for change. – We can not live with the fact that we meet daughters and sons in such a different way, she says. RESPONDS: Football president Lise Klaveness believes we can not live with the differences for young talents in Norwegian football. Photo: Frode Fjerdingstad / NRK NRK’s survey shows that Norwegian top clubs spend an average of NOK 42,000 on the development of girls’ players, while they spend NOK 112,000 on each boy player. – There is a skewed distribution that Norwegian football can not be aware of, reacts the general manager of Toppfotball women, Hege Jørgensen. The difference is clearest in the training field where each coach is responsible for an average of 17 players on the girls ‘side, while on the boys’ side each coach is responsible for only eight. – I do not think it belongs anywhere. We are aware that the difference is there. The point is that it reproduces an inequality when both resources and competence are so skewed, says Jørgensen. – Not good enough Those who have already made it all the way to the top in football, the national team players, say that they are unfortunately not surprised by the findings NRK has made. – I think it is genuinely upset that young girls grow up without the same opportunities in sports as the boys in the class do. Had it been outside of sports and in society, it would not have been accepted, says Emilie Haavi. INHIBITORS: Haavi believes the differences hinder development. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB Chelsea players Maren Mjelde and Guro Reiten also think it is unfair. – I think there should be equal opportunities to succeed, and it is clearly not. Or, we have probably known that it is not either, says Reiten. Everyone is clear that the big differences at a young age have consequences for young talents. – A coach who is responsible for 20 pieces, as opposed to being responsible for seven, eight, nine, ten players, is unable to have the same follow-up. You will get poorer feedback and it will be an obstacle to development, says Haavi. – They often do not get the follow-up that they should have had or could have received. You may be able to go to a training session without being seen, while with the boys you have three coaches with the same number of players. It is not good enough, says Mjelde. INVESTMENT: Mjelde believes that Norway must keep up with the European investment. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB She believes that equalizing these differences is important for Norwegian football also in a European context. – If you look at women’s football in Europe now, how insanely much is being invested. On the younger ones too. That is what will be important for the future. If we in Norway are to keep up with Europe, then we are dependent on bringing out these talents, says the Chelsea player. – Has been an unconscious Football is today the sport in Norway that brings together the most girls and Jørgensen believes it should have been Norway’s competitive advantage. She is the leader of the interest organization for the clubs in the top two divisions in Norway. Their goal is to be the main driving force for the development of Norwegian women’s football. – We have a strong culture for girls’ football at the grassroots, but they have not been invested enough in. This has been due to a distribution policy that Norwegian football has stood for all these years. I think there has been an unconsciousness around what has made the skewed distribution have become as it has become, she says. CRITICAL: The general manager of Toppfotball Kvinner, Hege Jørgensen, believes that Norway can not be aware of the unequal distribution in Norwegian football. Photo: Frode Fjerdingstad / NRK Jørgensen aims at the distribution of media money for the development work in Norwegian top clubs that come via the so-called academy classification. It is a tool that establishes clear standards for the work with top player development in men’s football. From 2017 to 2023, approximately NOK 300 million of Norwegian Top Football (NTF) and NFF’s media money will be invested in the development of young players at the top clubs. At the same time, the top clubs in women’s football receive 5.6 million from NFF and Toppfotball Kvinner for the development of young players. – We applaud the work that has been done by the men’s clubs and NTF. It’s a fantastic job they’ve done. But the problem is only that the differences have become so great when the NFF has not managed to compensate for the good work that has been done on the boys’ side. And then the economy has limited it on the girls’ side, says Jørgensen.
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