“Women and Football” is on the table at the Dubai International Conference

Dubai (Etihad)
At ten o'clock in the morning next Friday, the Dubai Press Club will host the first session within the activities of the eighteenth session of the Dubai International Sports Conference, a member of the “Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives”, which is organized annually by the Dubai Sports Council and is held this year under the slogan “Sustainability and Performance.” In football,” while the second session will be held in the evening at the Atlantis Hotel on the Palm Island.
The first session of the conference, which will be held in the conference hall at the Dubai Press Club headquarters, will be entitled “Women and Football” and will be dedicated to talking about the growing role of women in the world of football and their assuming many influential positions and tasks in the management of clubs and federations, including Senegalese Fatima Samoura assuming the position of Secretary-General of the International Federation. FIFA, as well as leading large and important matches on various continents.
Ornella Biglia, Director of Professional Football Development at FIFA, and Lina Soloco, Executive Director of Roma Club, will speak at the opening session of the conference, who represent a wonderful example of the growing role of women in the world of professional football and their success in managing a large work system that includes various specializations, tasks that were previously undertaken by men. In previous decades.
Choosing a topic related to the role of women in the world of football comes as a continuation of the efforts of the Dubai Sports Council to support women and confirm their merit in the world of sports in general and football in particular, as sessions were devoted to this topic in previous sessions of the conference, in which female players and referees who have excelled in the world of football were hosted. On January 10, Moroccan referee Bouchra Karboub was honored as she was chosen to win the Arab Referee Award within the twelfth session of the “Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Sports Creativity Award” in recognition of her distinction as she is the first Arab referee to lead matches in the FIFA World Cup Finals. Women's Football in 2023, and among the referees of the men's African Cup final in 2021, and she also led the men's Moroccan Throne Cup final in 2023.
An invitation was extended to attend the session to female players and administrators working in football in the country’s clubs and in the UAE Football Association, as well as in the clubs and academies operating in the country in order to benefit from the session and engage in dialogue with the speakers, each of whom has great and successful professional experiences and represents a role model for all women. In the field of football and working to carry out tasks that were previously limited to men, especially since women assume leadership tasks in various areas of life, whether political, economic or sports.