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December 4 – Quite a lot of eyebrows can have been raised throughout the worldwide recreation after FIFA introduced it has introduced in two-time US ladies’s World Cup-winning coach Jill Ellis to the brand new place of chief soccer officer.
Ellis will proceed to work alongside Arsène Wenger, FIFA chief of worldwide soccer improvement, in a partnership that started in 2021 when she led FIFA’s technical advisory group for the ladies’s recreation.
Ellis, who led the USA to back-to-back world titles in 2015 and 2019 and is to go away her position of president of the San Diego Wave within the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League, was an enormous advocate – as was Wenger – of Gianni Infantino’s doomed marketing campaign to double the variety of World Cups by taking part in them each two years as a substitute of 4.
The idea rapidly died a demise after it was fiercely resisted by Europe and South America however Infantino has now rewarded one other loyal ally with a senior administrative position within the bosom of the organisation.
“I’m honoured to hitch FIFA on this pioneering position and to contribute to the expansion of soccer from a world perspective,” Ellis stated. “FIFA has a novel skill, by soccer, to unite communities and to drive the sport’s improvement worldwide.
“Having skilled soccer, from grassroots programmes as much as senior national-team degree, I’ve seen first-hand its transformative energy.”
In its personal assertion, FIFA added: “The creation of the chief soccer officer place underscores FIFA’s dedication to fostering a various, inclusive and accessible world soccer group, guaranteeing that soccer stays a sport for all.”
Various and inclusive is an attention-grabbing selection of phrases given current accusations in opposition to Ellis for allegedly making a hostile working surroundings.
Again in August she responded to such allegations with a defamation lawsuit filed in opposition to the previous worker who claimed she was an abusive boss.
It was the very last thing the US recreation wanted having solely simply began to emerge from a sequence of sexual harassment and gender inequality scandals which have compelled a rethink of how the sport is coached and managed, and by whom.
In her go well with, Ellis stated the membership’s former videographer Brittany Alvarado used a faux e mail account to bolster her claims about Ellis.
However three different San Diego Wave staff additionally got here ahead complaining about office tradition.
For her half, on July 3 Alvarado posted: “On behalf of myself and my former colleagues, the therapy we endured below membership President Jill Ellis has been nothing in need of life-altering and devastating to our psychological well being.”
But with Ellis’ lawsuit nonetheless ongoing, she has now been tasked with driving the event and implementation of FIFA’s world soccer technique.
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