– Football is the world’s biggest sport for girls and women, we live in a world with 50 percent women, and it is of course unacceptable that we continue now with the same imbalance as we have had for the last 100 years, says football president Lise Klaveness in a press release . Klaveness has always been honest that this was the most likely outcome of this election campaign. – This is not the end, this is the beginning. We continue with undiminished strength towards the next election. The wave of change and modernization cannot be stopped. I do not respond to being overlooked or met with a culture of fear. We respond to open minds, curiosity and passion for football, she says. The NFF president told news shortly before the election that, if it was not successful this time, the election campaign would only be the first step towards another attempt in two years. – I think it’s a shame, it’s a shame for Lise, it’s a shame for football, says Ada Hegerberg to news. – She has full backing from me, she has full backing from us. Things don’t happen by themselves, change unfortunately. We have to push on, she adds. NATIONAL TEAM MANAGER: Ståle Solbakken. Photo: Fredrik Varfjell / NTB Nor is the men’s national team manager Ståle Solbakken surprised by the outcome. – No one is surprised by that. At least Lise herself. You can always have hope, but I think what she has done is right. I don’t think UEFA or FIFA can stand the test of time. Lise has a set of values, work capacity and intelligence. It is only a matter of time before she is elected if she wants to stand up for it, he says to news. Did not stand in the “women’s category” The goal is not satisfied by this outcome, Klaveness has long since established that she will continue to work to get into the Uefa board. This is how the votes were distributed Armand Duka (Albania) – 45 votes Jesper Møller (Denmark) – 42 votes Peter Fousek (Czech Republic) – 40 votes Levan Kobiashvili (Georgia) – 40 votes Luis Rubiales (Spain) – 40 votes Philippe Diallo (France) – 37 votes Andrii Pavelko (Ukraine) – 31 votes Hugo Quaderer (Liechtenstein) – 25 votes Bjorn Vassallo (Malta) – 25 votes Lise Klaveness (Norway) – 18 votes Rod Petrie (Scotland) – 15 votes The seven with the most votes were elected in the UEFA board. Klaveness could stand for election in the quota women’s place, where there had been only one opponent in Laura McAllister from Wales, but for reasons of principle she chose to fight for one of the ordinary places instead. There were 11, with Klaveness as the only woman, fighting for seven board seats. And it went as she thought, she didn’t get the 28 votes she needed to be elected. Klaveness received 18 votes, the second fewest of the eleven who stood for election. Before the election, Klaveness justified the decision not to run in the women’s category as follows to news: – There is less chance of entering this way, but we did it anyway. That was what the entire board and management group of the NFF agreed on. We wanted to move towards the system where women are pitted against each other at the forefront, she said. Aleksander Ceferin was re-elected as UEFA president. The Slovenian ran unopposed. – It means a lot to me. It is a great honor and a great responsibility. I will do everything not to disappoint you, he said in a short acceptance speech. These were elected to the UEFA board. Among them the Danes’ football president, Jesper Møller, of whom Solbakken has previously been critical. In front of news, he repeats why he does not like leaders like Møller being re-elected. – It is a paradox that types like Jesper Møller, who do nothing for anyone, can just spread around. It is the type of leaders who are out of touch with society or the spirit of the times who will eventually be replaced. It is still a conservative way of thinking, things take time to change. And in some organizations it takes longer than in others. You see that not least in how you front it and in which cases you front it, says Solbakken and continues: – Can you name one thing he has stood for or done? No, you can’t, because he doesn’t have it. FORMER BOARD MEMBER: Karen Espelund. Photo: Heiko Junge / NTB It was only in June 2011 that Karen Espelund, also from Norway, became the first woman in history to be appointed to the board of UEFA. But she got the place quotated by Uefa, who began to realize that it didn’t look quite so good with only men in the executive committee. A woman has never been elected to one of the open positions, and that did not happen in 2023 either. – I think it’s a shame for Norway, for the football association and for Lise. She has a strong, clear and distinct voice. It would have been nice to have her in. It might have come a little early. She and we have to keep working to get her in. I think in the long run it will be very good. We must have more female voices there, says women’s national team manager Hege Riise to news.
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