Think Football!: "The 2019 Women's World Cup will have a big impact on society" (N. Iannetta, UEFA)

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"The 2019 Women's World Cup in France will be an accelerator for football for women and girls in our country, but the impact will go far beyond the scope of football and even sport. It will be located at the French society as a whole," said Nathalie Ianetta, chief advisor to UEFA, during the discussion with the theme" The Women's World Cup 2019 in France: Leverage to the Feminisation of Sport", as part of the Think Football! 2017, at the Université Paris-Dauphine, 10/01/2017.

This discussion was one of seven debates during this first edition of Think Football!, a day of discussions and exchanges centered on innovation in sport, and organised by News Tank Football and its partners and involving several hundred actors throughout sport, in Paris (FRA) on 10/01/2017.

"I find that as women's sport grows, the number of sports players increases, and tomorrow there will be more female footballers than handball players. But we need results and media coverage, because we can not know or love what we do not see," said Beatrice Barbusse, president of the French National Centre for the…

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