UEFA Opens Way For Woman To Sit On Executive Committee

Delegates decided at an extraordinary Congress on Thursday that at least one woman "will be elected" to UEFA's exec committee for the first time in May, according to Mike Collett of REUTERS. Women's football "is growing in popularity around the world, and proposals to give women more say in the running of the sport were part of a package of measures drawn up by global governing body FIFA last year in the wake of a huge corruption scandal." UEFA delegates "voted to revise their statutes and reserve at least one position for a woman elected at Congress and not co-opted by the executive committee, as has been done in the past." The first woman likely to be elected at the Congress in Budapest in May "will be Karen Espelund of Norway," who has been a co-opted member of the exec committee since '11 (REUTERS, 2/25).