UEFA: Florence Hardouin, deputy CEO of the FFF, is elected onto the Executive Committee

Florence Hardouin, 49 years old, deputy CEO of the FFF since 07/02/2013, was elected as a member of the UEFA Executive Committee, by the congress in Budapest (HUN), on 03/05/2016. Hardouin won 33 votes compared to 21 for Norway's Karen Espelund, a UEFA Executive Committee member since 2012.

This is the first time the UEFA Congress (which comprises the 54 national member federations) has elected a woman as member of the Executive Committee, following the amendment of the regulations adopted at the 11^th Extraordinary Congress in Zurich (SUI) on 25/02/2016, which entered into force on 01/03/2016. The female member of the Executive Committee was previously appointed by the Executive Committee itself and Karen Espelund was re-appointed by acclamation by the Executive Committee, in Prague (CZE), on 30/06/2015.

The new UEFA Statutes state that the female member of the Executive Committee may have the same nationality as another member of the body. This effectively means that the possible return of UEFA president Michel Platini (FRA), who has been suspended since 08/10/2015 and is…