by admin | Aug 29, 2022 | Representation, SEW
World football’s governing body FIFA lifted the suspension imposed on the All India Football Federation (AIFF) earlier this month after the Supreme Court, last Monday, dissolved the Committee of Administrators (CoA) appointed to run the federation. Consequently, FIFA...
by admin | Jun 1, 2022 | Representation, SEW
FIFA has appointed a team of 54 all-female officials to this year’s Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica, the first time it has done so for one of its tournaments. Thirteen women referees, 27 women assistant referees and 14 video match officials will...
by admin | Jan 24, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The sheer brilliance and dominance of some female footballers over the decades has clearly not gone unnoticed.They have continued to push the limit and break the stereotype that football is a men’s sport which has helped to empower women and young girls across...
by admin | Oct 24, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to the Chicago Sky who won their first ever WNBA Championship. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to FIFA who know the abuse allegations now surrounding women’s soccer is just the tip of the...
by admin | Oct 19, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
FIFA has assembled a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to assess how women’s football can develop. The TAG is made up of male and female professionals from the six continental confederations across a range of roles including current and former players, coaches,...
by admin | Oct 19, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) named 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup chief executive Marla Messing as its interim CEO on Monday, after allegations of sexual misconduct engulfed the league. Last month, allegations involving former North Carolina...
by admin | Oct 18, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
After allegations of abuse in women’s football surfaced in recent weeks in the US, Venezuela and Australia, the sport’s world governing body FIFA fears they could be the “tip of the iceberg.” Joyce Cook, FIFA’s Chief Education and Social...
by admin | Sep 14, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Former USWNT head coach Jill Ellis has joined FIFA as a lead adviser on the future of women’s soccer, tasked to examine changes to the international match calendar. Ellis joins the board as FIFA intensifies their campaign to turn the World Cup into a biennial event...
by admin | Jun 17, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
U.S. Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone said Tuesday that with the regard to the equal pay lawsuit filed by players on the U.S. women’s national team, asking the federation “to make up the difference in FIFA prize money is untenable, and would...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The ruling, when it eventually came, could not have been more clear. One of soccer’s six regional bodies had engaged in discriminatory behavior against a female official by hindering her chances of getting a seat on its board and a leadership position with the sport’s...
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