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January 7 – Belgian FA president Pascale van Damme is about to affix FIFA’s ruling council after being the one candidate to run for a seat reserved for a feminine official from Europe.
Van Damme will run unopposed and is about to be elected on the UEFA Congress on April 3 in Belgrade.
She has solely been accountable for Belgian soccer for below two years but is in line to get a four-year time period within the FIFA put up that pays $250,000 yearly.
She is going to change Evelina Christillin whose background is in snowboarding and tourism and who has connections with the Agnelli household at Juventus. She leaves after greater than eight years within the function.
In 2016, Christillin was the primary girl elected by UEFA to affix the 37-member FIFA council.
Every of the sport’s six confederations has a spot reserved for a feminine on the FIFA Council although none has ever elected a girl in a head-to-head vote in opposition to as man.
4 different European FIFA Council members are set to proceed after standing for re-election with none rival candidates: Răzvan Burleanu of Romania, Georgios Koumas of Cyprus, Bernd Neuendorf of Germany and Dejan Savićević of Montenegro, the previous AC Milan star. All are presidents their nationwide federations.
UEFA has set a February 3 deadline – two months earlier than the congress in Belgrade – for candidates to enter elections for 10 vacant seats by itself government committee, together with that of David Gill, its treasurer and the previous CEO at Manchester United.
Gill has reached the 12-year time period restrict for UEFA elected positions.
One of many 10 vacancies is for a second seat protected for ladies, becoming a member of present UEFA vice chairman Laura McAllister of Wales who was elected two years in the past. Candidates will seemingly embrace Norwegian federation president Lise Klaveness, a incessantly outspoken campaigner for human rights.
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