UEFA: "We need more gender diversity" (Lise Klaveness, Norges Fotballforbund)

"We definitely need more gender diversity, but an issue we currently have in football is that either we have people who are coming from the women's football side or from the men's one and very few who have seen both sides. In the current UEFA executive Committee, we do not have that and I hope we improve that," said Lise Klaveness, president of the Norwegian Football Federation (Norges Fotballforbund) and candidate for a position on the UEFA executive committee (elections on 05/04/2023), to the agency LTT Sports on 08/03/2023.

"When I was nominated for the position at the Norges Fotballforbund (in March 2022), it was done on the basis of an urge to change, to improve the league and to compete. Now, I'm running for the UEFA ExCo with the same spirit. My candidacy is not political though. I am from the administration side of football but clearly it helps my career to have been a professional. I am a pragmatic person from the game, not a coach, I have meetings all day!" said the woman who, like Philippe Diallo, interim president of the Fédération Française de Football (FFF), is one of…