Crossing the door of the main hall of the Foment del Treball headquarters was like passing through a door of time and moving to the future. It was like arriving in 2050. You felt a little like Marty McFly and not because skateboards flew. But to see that the sport of the future will be more feminine. It must be. That is true progress and not skateboarding through the air.
While Spain has been embroiled for a month with Rubiales’ abuse of power, with Rubiales clinging to the chair in the Spanish Football Federation, with attacks on the soccer players, world champions, and a non-consensual call, he took to the stage of the courtroom Lise Klaveness, within the II International Women in Sport Congress. Klaveness was a Norwegian soccer player, she played in two World Cups (2003 and 2007), and since last year, she is the president of the Norwegian Football Federation. Yes, from all the football in the country, also from Håland and Odegaard.
The experiences she recounted were as if she welcomed the times to come, as if they were reading your cards, with women in the highest representative position of the beautiful sport. “I don’t feel alone because I represent boys and girls football in my country. “I don’t feel alone, I feel strong,” she said about what she felt surrounded by men in FIFA.
Lise Klaveness was one of the six winners in the second edition of the congress organized by the Unió de Federacions Esportives Catalanes (UFEC). The Norwegian received the Rights and Equality award.
The others were Aurora Catà, vice president of the America’s Cup Event Barcelona, ??chosen for the International Executive award; Patry Jordan, fitness guru with 13 million followers, who won the Entrepreneur Sports Woman award; Ethiopian Dagmawit Girmay Berhane, member of the International Olympic Committee, was awarded the International Leadership Award; the vice president of FC Barcelona, ??Elena Fort, collected the award for the Promoting Entity of Women’s Sports; while Anna Lewandowska, former karateka and businesswoman, won the Sports Influencer award. Lewandowska is the wife of the Barça player.
Their words were encouraging. Her speeches were full of energy. His voices sounded vindictive. Her dedications had a message of empowering women.
Almost at the same time that Alexia Putellas had to appear at a press conference in Göteborg, Barça received another recognition for its contribution to the dissemination of women’s football, similar to the Parliament’s Medal of Honor last week. “We are going to continue believing and betting on women’s sports. “Barça can be the voice for women to see that we can go wherever we want,” said Fort, the sole director of Laporta’s board.
Gerard Esteva, president of the UFEC, accompanied Javier Godó, count of Godó, in presenting the trophy to Dagmawit Girmay Berhane, who has been in positions of responsibility in his country since he was 20 years old. From 2004 to 2008 he chaired the Ethiopian Olympic Committee.
-What achievement are you most proud of? – They Asked.
-To be myself – she confessed. An answer that drew applause from the audience.
Although the best feedback there can be, the spontaneous one, came from Patry Jordan from the stage. Guitarist Marta Robles, who accompanied Elena Gadel in the three songs she sang during the gala, confessed that musicians have very little time to dedicate to exercising. “I have to thank you for the little sport I do,” she told him.
