Participants DISCOVER FOOTBALL Women’s Football Media Conference

Berlin, December 2017

Organisation/Broadcaster/Newsmagazine

TAZ - German NewspaperWomen‘s Footie IndonesiaFootball Club in FinnlandDaily Nation (newspaper), NTV (Nation TV)South African SportsWoman, South African SportRPC (Broadcasting & Media Production Company), Rede Globo (TV)Football Federation Lebanon

Football for All VietnamMonthly Sunday Sports MagazineDeutsche Welle - German TV and Radio StationWomen‘s Football Morocco Football Federation; Club Municipa Laayoune Football FeminineThe Peres Center for Peace and EducationTVGE (Televisión de Guinea Ecuatorial)Football Federation KR, Women Football Association KRVietnam Television, Moving 24 hoursIndian and international pressGlobal Press Journal Gambia Football FederationSportif Lezbon

Capital TV, IBC UrduProyecto de fútbol feminino en Cuba

Given Name

Alina Amanda Afiantari Betelihem Brehanu CellestineCheryl

Gabriela

Hiba

Hong TinhHumaJanaKhadija

LiorMilagrosaNatalia

Ngoc Thi BichPriyankaRaihanaSaineySelin

Shazia Yunelsis

Surname

SchwermerKuswandiAlemuAkinyiRoberts

de Castro Ribei

El Jaafil

Chau GulSchäferIlla

ShalomBatapaUgriumova

PhamBorpujariMaqboolSissohoreYildiz

NayyarRodriguez Baez

Year of Birth

19911988199219891960

1992

1987

1985199019681981

199019911990

19751985199019981990

19811977

Position

Sports JournalistPublic Relations ManagerPlayer and Assistant CoachSports Journalist Independent Publisher

Sports Journalist

Head Coach of the U17 Womens National TeamHead of Communication and MarketingSports JournalistSports JournalistFirst leader at WFMFF; second president at CMLFFFootball Projects ManagerTV Announcer and EditorPress Secretary

JournalistIndependent JournalistJournalist Football CoordinatorProject Coordinator, responsible for Social MediaSports Journalist Head coach of women's soccer in Cuba and coach of the national women's team

Country

GermanyIndonesiaEthiopiaKenyaSouth Africa

Brazil

Lebanon

VietnamPakistanGermanyMorocco

IsraelEquatorial GuineaKyrgyzstan

VietnamIndiaIndiaGambiaTurkey

PakistanCuba

THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED BY:

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I am Amanda Kuswandi from Women’s Footie Indonesia (WFI). Studying Gender and Social Studies is my passion since High School. After I graduated in Interna-tional Relations, I realized that gender equality and women’s empowerment are very important to me. So, I went to graduate school and majored in American Studies. That was where I became aware of issues about women’s soccer. In Indonesia, many people still think girls can only do sports as long if it is not too boyish or if it does not involve physical contact. Sometimes the blindness and deafness of the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI), who still thinks women’s soccer is not a profitable field for them, is enough to irritate girls and destroy their dreams.

As a result of these issues, in 2013 Women’s Footie Indonesia (WFI) was estab-lished as a home for our beloved women’s players, coaches and staff, where they can share their activities and interact with their friends from all over the world. WFI is also proud to spread awareness in Indonesia. The goal is to inspire girls to achieve their dreams to be world champ footballers. At the moment, my colleagues and I are busy with our soccer camp project, which will take place in January 2018. Our team has planned this project in cooperation with the US Embassy in Jakarta for about six months and is excited to finish the prepara-tions before Christmas. However, suddenly the PSSI decided to organize the regional championships later than planned, as a preparation for their Women’s National Team for the Asian Games 2018. We just hope that things will end-up well and that the girls can finally enjoy their first international game as a senior Women’s National Team next year.

n a m e Amanda Afiantari Kuswandi

y e a r o f b i r t h 1988

p o s i t i o n Public Relations Manager

c o u n t r y Indonesia

o r g a n i s a t i o n Womens＇Footie Indonesia

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I am a sports journalist at Berlin-based newspaper Taz die Tageszeitung and mainly write about football and other sports, and on sport topics with a political or social implication. At Taz I am responsible for the Berlin sports department and also write for regional sports and sometimes for the sports department of the newspaper Jungle World. At local Taz Sports we regularly report on women`s football, for instance local club Turbine Potsdam, but as for other disciplines with very little audience at women’s matches it is un-fortunately much harder to justify reporting. I hope at the conference we’re going to develop ideas for exciting stories apart from mainstream stories which show women’s football in all facets it has, not too softly, the same way we would do with men’s sports. Originally I am from Cologne in the western part of Germany. I am a football fan since I was 12-years-old and ran home from school during the World Cup in 2002 in order to be able to see the matches. I used to play football in a girls team for six years, almost always lost but mostly had fun. My first attempt at sports journalism was a hand-painted Bayern Munich newspaper drawn at the cellar of my parents home which luckily nobody ever read. After having studied journalism in Dortmund, I did a yearlong internship at newspaper Main Post in Bavaria and studied one semester in Russia. Eventually I ended up in Berlin at Taz newspaper. In spring my book on fan ownership in football and fan-owned clubs will be published. I visited and portrayed community clubs all across Europe for one year. Last year I had a scholarship from Verband Deutscher Sportjournalisten (German Sports Journalists Association) which thankfully helped me do that.

n a m e Alina Schwermer

y e a r o f b i r t h 1991

p o s i t i o n Sports Journalist

c o u n t r y Berlin / Germany

b r o a d c a s t e r / n e w s m a g a z i n e TAZ – German Newspaper

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n a m e Betelihem Brehanu Alemu

y e a r o f b i r t h 1992

p o s i t i o n Player and Assistant Coach

c o u n t r y Ethiopia

o r g a n i s a t i o n Football Club in Finnland

My name is Betelihem Alemu but everyone calls me Betty. I am 25-years-old, a football enthusiast originally from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 2015-2017 I have been studying at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and completed my Master’s in Sport Management and Health Promotion. My master thesis research aimed at evaluating the potential that sport and PA (football in particular) have in the empowerment of young girls and women in Ethi-opia. In addition to my studies I also played at the local football club, univer-sity futsal team and coached local youth football club. Between 2011-2015 I completed my bachelor degree at Earlham College, Indiana, USA in Busi-ness and Nonprofit Management while playing at collegiate soccer. I also coached football at youth centers and clubs. 2009-2010 I completed Inter-national Baccalaureate Diploma at Waterford Kamhlaba United World Col-lege of Southern Africa, Swaziland. Furthermore, I also played at the school football team and serve in community services that use sport as a tool for social changes. Currently I am preparing to start my three years PhD stud-ies at the University of Bern, Switzerland to do an in depth research on the empowerment and social integration of young girls and women through football. Through my studies, research, coaching and playing career in the four different countries I have lived so far, I learnt that media coverage in football could influence crucial conversation regarding issues concerning safety, accessibility, affordability and violence in women‘s sport around the world. My research participants argue that media coverage holds key to the further promotion and acceptance of women sport and familiarizing the nation with the unvalued potential it has to the betterment of women social and economic well being.

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My name is Cellestine Olilo, a Kenya-based sports researcher, writer, analyst, commentator and consultant who purposes to discredit the stereotypes surrounding gender and sport. Acknowledged as the first lady of Kenyan football, I am attached to Nation Media Group whose platforms I occasion-ally use to advocate for better inclusion and fair representation of women in sports. Being a sports journalist in East Africa’s biggest media house has al-lowed me to have firsthand experience on the levels of discrimination which women in football (journalists and administrators included) endure, and I continue to identify the gaps that exist in the efforts so far put in place to alter the situation. My research usually dwells around the issues surrounding women in sport and I spend majority of my time thinking up innovative ideas/solutions to alleviate the burden on women sports personalities and writing academic papers on this issue. For this, I have been honoured with invitations to attend a number of conferences and symposiums around this theme, from where I have gathered vast experience and insight about the matter while offering my input on the topic.

My latest project is an Abstract under the theme “Tell Their Story: Leveraging Media to Advocate for Women’s Sport”, a paper which I intend to submit lat-er this month ahead of the “IWG World Conference On Women And Sport” to be held next year in Botswana. I am also a MA student at the University of Nairobi where I am currently pursuing a course in Development Commu-nication. I am in the process of compiling my thesis whose topic is: Factors Hindering the Development of Women’s Football in Kenya.

n a m e Cellestine Akinyi

y e a r o f b i r t h 1989

p o s i t i o n Sports Journalist

c o u n t r y Kenya

b r o a d c a s t e r / n e w s m a g a z i n e Sports Journalist for the Daily Nation newspaper

and NTV

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Cheryl Roberts is an independent publisher, spe-cialising in alternative and independent sports media. She initiated her independent sports media venture over 25 years ago in apartheid South Africa so that she could write and publish what was necessary, what was marginalised and ignored in commercial media and what need-ed to be written about sport, through a black women’s lens. She focuses on girls and women in sport, especially black and working class girls and women in sport from grassroots to interna-tional level. She is out on the sports field, docu-menting original sports content.

n a m e Cheryl Roberts

y e a r o f b i r t h 1960

p o s i t i o n Independent Publisher

c o u n t r y South Africa

b r o a d c a s t e r / n e w s m a g a z i n e Independent Publisher for her own

publications „South African SportsWoman“ and

„South African Sport“

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My name is Gabriela Ribeiro. I am Brazilian and 25. I grew up in Curitiba, south Brazil, and that’s the city where I live and work by now. But right af-ter I graduated, in 2015, I moved to Brazil’s capital, Brasília, to cover sports politics. After that, spent a few months in Rio de Janeiro, working in the Olympics. Today, I’m a TV and web reporter for Globo Esporte, which is the most viewed sports TV show in my country. Football is the main subject we cover, so it is my everyday job. Not only the national championship, but also personal stories, social projects and different perceptions that involve the sport. In such a big platform, I have the opportunity to give voice to those who are not heard. And that’s actually my mission at work everyday: to show everybody that sport is a life-changing tool.

n a m e Gabriela de Castro Ribeiro

y e a r o f b i r t h 1992

p o s i t i o n Sports Journalist

c o u n t r y Curitiba/ Brazil

b r o a d c a s t e r / n e w s m a g a z i n e TV and web reporter / Sportjournalist for

Globo Esporte

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I am Hiba El Jaafil, from Lebanon. I was the captain for Lebanese Football and Futsal Women’s National Team for 10 years. I started coaching the U-17 and U-19 Women’s National Team since 2014, to date. In February 2015 we took the Arab Cup with the U-17 National Team in Doha/Qatar, the 1st cup for the Lebanese Football Association for both Boys and Girls. Now I am working as a Sports Coordinator for the Evangelical School for Girls and Boys, also I am working with StreetFootballWorld in Lebanon and Jordan as an Instructor for football 3 game.

n a m e Hiba El Jaafil

y e a r o f b i r t h 1987

p o s i t i o n Head Coach of the

U17 Womens National Team

c o u n t r y Lebanon

o r g a n i s a t i o n Football Federation Lebanon

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I am Tinh from Football for All in Vietnam (FFAV), an organization using football to educate life-skills for children, promote gender balance and con-tribute to the social inclusion of marginalized groups. In our activities, FFAV has a strict demand of 50% girls participation, this has both changed the thoughts of people that girls could not play football like the boys and at-tracted huge numbers of girls involved in fun and non-competitive football activities.

I started with FFAV as an interpreter and progressively, my professional ob-ligations grew into a personal commitment. I am now in charge of commu-nication and marketing work of FFAV. Through the journey of 14 years with FFAV, seeing that the children I work with grow and learn something useful through football is truly moving. It actually is the driving force for me to try harder in my efforts in promoting grassroots football and fundraise for its development.

Participating in this Conference, I do hope to share our experience and ef-forts in promoting women’s football and empower young girls through football activities. Also, with the opportunities to network and exchange with the other participants from different countries, I do believe there are lots success case stories and lesson learnt that will be of great benefit to my work at home. And together we can work out the appropriate strategy to advocate to government, football governing bodies and media agencies on the promotion of women’s football.

n a m e Chau Hong Tinh

y e a r o f b i r t h 1985

p o s i t i o n Head of Communication

and Marketing

c o u n t r y Vietnam

o r g a n i s a t i o n Football for All Vietnam

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Huma Gul belongs to Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Prov-ince of Pakistan and has been working as a Sports Journalist for the last three years in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with Monthly Sunday Sports. A well-sea-soned freelance photojournalist, dedicated to capturing and depicting vivid colors and dynamics of nature, people and ideas to unveil their significance in thought-provoking manner. An avid and devoted trainer, she is deter-mined to raise and spread in-depth awareness, practical understanding and role of photography for a positive change in the society. She has successful-ly worked on several projects pertaining to the on-the-spot photography. Besides this, Gul contributed to FATA Faces and Voices, a book by National Democratic Institute. She was fortunate enough to participate for fifteen days in Washington DC USA photography training arranged by USAID. She did her MBA (HRM) from Institute of Management Studies, University of Pe-shawar in 2013-2015 and also took part in one week photojournalism train-ing organized by National Geographic Society in Islamabad Pakistan in Sep-tember 2012. After successful participation in this course she was selected for Master Course on Photojournalism in Washington DC USA.

n a m e Huma Gul

y e a r o f b i r t h 1990

p o s i t i o n Sports Journalist

c o u n t r y Pakistan

b r o a d c a s t e r / n e w s m a g a z i n e Monthly Sunday Sports Magazine

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I was born in Bonn, Germany, and grew up in a small village nearby. At seven or eight years old, I realized there were at least two things that weren’t pos-sible for me, because I was a girl. Things I really wanted to do. Being raised Catholic, I had to go to church every Sunday. Becoming an altar server then seemed to be a very desirable goal to me - but it was only for the boys. The more important thing was football. The village boys wouldn’t let me join them playing football. And there were no other girls anywhere around that were interested, and I had never heard of girls’ football teams. So I watched football with my father and got very much into it. But: there were only men. I never saw a women’s football match as a child.

I had to wait until my thirties until I found my own football team in Berlin. There was a notice in the ladies room of a football bar, announcing they were looking for women who wanted to play football, even without experi-ence. Sadly, it was a bit too late for me to develop a good technique. But anyhow, I still could run fast and was at least passionate. I played as left back and being part of a team was a great experience. In my next life I want to be reborn as a talented football player.

Shortly after I found my team, some colleagues of mine started a football show named “Kick Off!” on Deutsche Welle and asked me to be part of it; they knew I was into football. It’s now 13 years that I’ve worked as a football reporter. Still, it is mainly about the men’s game. But that’s the big thing. From time to time there is the chance to do something on female football-ers. Getting the attention the boys get? Still a long way to go.

n a m e Jana Schäfer

y e a r o f b i r t h 1968

p o s i t i o n Sports Journalist

c o u n t r y Germany

b r o a d c a s t e r / n e w s m a g a z i n e Deutsche Welle German TV / Radio Station

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When I was 14 years old, I started to play football with young people of the Laayoune team. With 18 I was integrated into Laayoune's senior football team. Until the end of my football player career, I was the captain of this team. Today I am working for Sahara's Football League and for the Royal Federation of Football in Morocco. I am in charge of the promotion and the development of female football in those two institutions. All my efforts are concentrated on the presence of women in Morocco's football environment, which is still only reserved for men. We daily try the best to help young women to practice their favorite sport. Today, fortunately, a huge number of parents allows and promotes the girl's wish to play football.

Actually, in the «sportive» society of Morocco there is a positive evolution for Moroccan women and girls. This is our goal we wanted to reach. And we'll keep on fighting.

n a m e Khadija Illa

y e a r o f b i r t h 1981

p o s i t i o n Player and Assistant Coach

c o u n t r y Laayoune / Marokko

o r g a n i s a t i o n 1st leader of the Women‘s

Football Marokko Football Federation

2nd president of the Municipa Laayoune Football

Feminine Clubs

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I am 27-years-old and live in Tel Aviv, Israel. I hold a B.A. in International Re-lations from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Since 2015 I have been working at the Peres Center for Peace and Innova-tion, a non-profit organization that works to promote peacebuilding in Israel and around the region. I am a Project Manager in the Peace Education De-partment, where I focus on implementing Peace Education through Sport programs such as the Twinned Peace Sport Schools program (TPSS), as well as Leadership through Sport programs. I have traveled around the world representing the programs and training others in the Peres Center’s unique Sport in the Service of Peace methodologies.

Since its launch in 2002, the TPSS program has brought together over 20,000 Jewish and Arab youth in a safe, healthy, and fun environment built on the principles of equality, diversity and respect. Within the wider TPSS and leadership programs, I also focus on promoting female empowerment for groups of girls and young women. As gender stereotypes often discourage girls and women from entering many social and professional fields, includ-ing sport, these programs empower young women to gain confidence and become leaders, and breaks down barriers between Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians.

I believe that peace is possible in our region, and that we must actively work to build trust, mitigate fear, and break down stereotypes and prejudices.

n a m e Lior Shalom

y e a r o f b i r t h 1990

p o s i t i o n Football Projects Manager

c o u n t r y Israel

o r g a n i s a t i o n The Peres Center for Peace

and Education

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My name is Milagrosa Concepción Batapa Boko, and I am 26-years-old. I am a journalism student at the National University of Equatorial Guinea (UNGE). Since 2010 I have been work-ing as a camerawoman at the national channel of Equatorial Guinea. I have traveled to several countries in Europe and in Africa for doing re-searches and missions for the sportive sector of this channel.

My studies at the university UNGE, help me to continue and to deepen my journalism career and finally to realize my dream. Since two years I have been working intensely as an editor and a reporter for the information service of an-other channel, called Televisión Guinea Ecu-atorial (TVGE). I use to work as moderator for several channels too. Actually I am moderator at the sportive section of the Telediario Matinal which is a two-hour-program from Monday to Friday.

My relation with football is its passion: Watch-ing a football game is impressive… You feel like you are playing the game yourself and being the number 12 on the pitch, or the third coach.Football is a powerful tool which unites no-tions, crosses borders and realizes the dreams of a lot of young people.

n a m e Milagrosa Batapa

y e a r o f b i r t h 1991

p o s i t i o n TV Announcer and Editor

c o u n t r y Equatorial Guinea

b r o a d c a s t e r / n e w s m a g a z i n e TVGE (Televisión de Guinea Ecuatorial)

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My name is Ugriumova Natalia. I’m 27-years-old. I am from a beautiful country called the Kyrgyz Republic.

I am working in the Football Federation of Kyrgyz Republic as press secretary and also I am the photographer of the national men’s and women’s football teams. Also I’m working in the Women’s Football Association of KR as media specialist. I am working in the media de-partment and most of the publication in our official website and in social media. I took part in AFC Local Media Officer Seminar. It is a trad-itional education seminar in Kuala Lumpur for media specialists of the Member Association of Asian Football Confederation. After this course, I was working as the local media officer in international matches and different men’s and women’s football tournaments.

Kyrgyzstan is a young country and is just be-ginning to develop. To many people only now comes to the idea of the importance of football in society and the upbringing of a healthy gen-eration of children. I want to organize all media work in FFKR and in every football club in Kyr-gyzstan too. Especially in social media. I want to do everything for Kyrgyz football and for its popularity in society and healthy lifestyle.

n a m e Natalia Ugriumova

y e a r o f b i r t h 1990

p o s i t i o n Press Secretary

c o u n t r y Kyrgyzstan

o r g a n i s a t i o n Football Federation KR,

Women Football Association KR

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I come from Vietnam, the country that has its first women’s football team established in 1932. After 85 years of existence, Vietnam women’s football team has won five gold medals at SEA Games, two championship at South-east Asian women’s football competition, and seven times came into the final round of Asian women’s football competition. The women’s football team of Vietnam is now seeking the possibility to play at the World Cup.

The Vietnamese women’s football team has proved that women can play football and can do it well. I am so proud of them. They remind me of Mi-chael Jordan’s saying: Some people want it to happen, some want to see it happen, others make it happen. The girls that play football in Vietnam have “made it happen”. And they inspire other girls to realize their dreams of be-coming footballers. They also motivate female journalists to overcome the prejudice of female sports journalists, that “Women know nothing about the players, as well as the tactics of the matches. They better stay at home, cook, and do the women’s work.” We, the female sports journalists are trying to answer by our products, trying to turn the challenges into advantages.

Regarding the purposes of the conference: Exchange with women in foot-ball, I will share the interaction of gender and sports and contribute my knowledge and experiences in view of increasing the visibility of women in sports and developing stories of women in football.

n a m e Pham Thi Bich Ngoc

y e a r o f b i r t h 1975

p o s i t i o n Journalist

c o u n t r y Vietnam

b r o a d c a s t e r / n e w s m a g a z i n e Vietnam Television, Moving 24 hours

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Priyanka Borpujari has been a journalist since 11 years and has reported on issues of human rights and gender, as sports being one of them. As a jour-nalist she has extensively covered those issues in India, El Salvador and Indo-nesia, and the different ways in which women and girls continue to be sub-ject to discrimination, as well as their various modes of resistance. In the last two years, she has been vocal about the ways in which women freelance journalists in India are ill-treated. She is invited to colleges to speak about her journey as a journalist in India, which helps her to encourage both men and women to not lose sight of journalistic ethics and principles in the face of capitalist ownership of news media.

n a m e Priyanka Borpujari

y e a r o f b i r t h 1985

p o s i t i o n Independent Journalist

c o u n t r y India

b r o a d c a s t e r / n e w s m a g a z i n e Indian & International Press

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I am a journalist based in Indian Administered Kashmir. I work as a reporter cum photograph-er. I have done my Masters in mass communi-cation and journalism from University of Kash-mir in 2013. I started my career as a reporter by joining Daily Kashmir Images, a local newspaper of Kashmir in 2012. In Kashmir Images I special-ized in reporting on health, education, sports, conflict and women. I did a lot of stories on the women in Kashmir. My work has also been published in The Better India and JK Evening mail also. I also worked in Hindustan Time as a trainee sub-editor and worked with Big 92.7 FM [radio] as well.

In 2015 I joined Global Press Journal, an inter-national news organization based in the United States as a reporter from Kashmir. I work as a re-porter cum photographer and tell stories most-ly about social injustice, economics, health, sports, mental health, human rights, human trafficking, and violence against women, edu-cation, and women’s issues for Global Press Journal.

Find my work here: https://globalpressjournal.com/reporter/raihana-maqbool/

n a m e Raihana Maqbool

y e a r o f b i r t h 1990

p o s i t i o n Journalist

c o u n t r y India

b r o a d c a s t e r / n e w s m a g a z i n e Global Press Journal

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My Name is Sainey Sissohore. I live in Abuko. I was born on the 30th De-cember 1998. I am a Gambian by nationality. In the future I always want to serve as an ambassador of women’s football and to see myself as a CAF/FIFA Women Executive to govern women’s football in the whole world. My philosophy I stand for: “I am sure that together we can achieve our objec-tives.” FIFA MA Coaching Courses Level 1 & 2 holder, GFF D License Coach, and GFF Certificate in Football Administration. Advance Diploma in Man-agement Studies, Advance Certificate in Information Technology Microsoft Application, West Africa Extermination Council Senior Leaving Certificate, GFF Appointed FIFA Live Your Goal Ambassador, Women Football Coordi-nator (Administrative) Coordinate National Women’s Leagues and National Teams’ Activities and responsible of all activities for women’s football in the Gambia . Implement FIFA Live Your Goals –Technical Courses, Girls’ Festivals in all Regions, and Member of the Technical Working Group (GFF), Coordi-nating Committee Member of CAF C & B License Courses, and Secretary to the Women’s Football Committee (GFF). National Women’s League 1 Cham-pions (Abuko United) Team Captain 2008/09, World Cup appearance Azer-baijan 2012 Women’s National U17 Team Vice-Captain, Youngest Player FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup in Azerbaijan, 2013/14- Women’s Zonal Football Champions (KM-Region). Technical Training Programs with SOS Children Vil-lage, Member of the Women Sport Commission in the Gambia.

n a m e Sainey Sissohore

y e a r o f b i r t h 1998

p o s i t i o n Football Coordinator

c o u n t r y Gambia

o r g a n i s a t i o n Gambia Football Federation

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Selin lives in Ankara [Turkey]. She studies Politi-cal Science and Public Administration in METU. Selin identifies herself as a sport activist mainly interested in women’s and LGBTI football. She is co-founder of the first football team in Turkey named as Sportif Lezbon. It was founded by les-bian and bisexual women in 2015 based in Anka-ra but open to players of all sexual identities and sexual orientations. Selin is responsible for proj-ect coordination and social media management in Sportif Lezbon. For three years, Sportif Lezbon has organized football tournaments, workshops, film screening and panel discussions.

n a m e Selin Yildiz

y e a r o f b i r t h 1990

p o s i t i o n Project Coordinator

Social Media Responsible

c o u n t r y Turkey

o r g a n i s a t i o n Sportif Lezbon

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Shazia Nayyar is a broadcast journalist and ar-ticle writer affiliated with Capital TV. She com-pleted her Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Punjab, one of the best university of Pakistan. She has nine years of professional experience in the field of journal-ism. She makes reports on national and inter-national political issues, human rights, culture, education, environment, terrorism, child labor and women’s rights. She has done programs as an anchor on social gatherings, “Capital Social Round-Up,” and “Apna Investigation,” which is based on crime stories.

She has received green journalist award from the Ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, for her special reports on environ-mental issues and received certificate of honor for her best reports from different organizations. She also started to write blogs on different is-sues like child rights, culture, women’s issues and the role of religious leaders in empowering woman. Being a woman she takes keen interest in women’s issues.

During her journalism she started to promote games among woman of her society. She also establishes a small online business of clothing to help out the poor ladies to empower them financially.

n a m e Shazia Nayyar

y e a r o f b i r t h 1981

p o s i t i o n Sports Journaist

c o u n t r y Pakistan

b r o a d c a s t e r / n e w s m a g a z i n e Capital TV, IBC Urdu

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My name ist Yunelsis Rodríguez Baez. I live and come from Cuba. I have al-ways played football professionally in different teams of Cuba. I represented my country in different international tournaments and gained several na-tional championships. Actually, I am the technical leader of Cuba s female football and an active member of the national and technical committee of this sport. And I am the trainer of the national selection of the under-20 and older female player of Cuba, too. Football is my major passion. As a trainer, I do not want to be treated differently, I would like to be a trainer and a friend for my athletes. For me it is the best feeling of the world to step on a football pitch every day. I prefer a football game, played with the entire heart than a goal without passion.

To develop female football and to show people worldwide that women can and want to play football, we all need a lot of energy. But we all can have the possibility to play football, but unfortunately not every girl can live and share the feeling of playing football, because of restrictions – but I can feel this wonderful feeling daily. And we can t give up the endless fight, we have to share and promote female football all together.

n a m e Yunelsis Rodriguez Baez

y e a r o f b i r t h 1977

p o s i t i o n Head coach of women's soccer in

Cuba and coach of the national women's team

c o u n t r y Cuba

o r g a n i s a t i o n Proyecto de fútbol

feminino en Cuba