April 3 – FIFA’s first ever female general secretary Fatma Samoura takes top position in Forbes’ latest ranking of the most important women in sport.
Appointed in 2016, Samoura is the second-most-powerful person in world football behind FIFA president Gianni Infantino though her contribution to the workings of the organisation has so far divided opinion.
“My appointment in 2016 was a very strong signal that FIFA, a male-dominated organization, was opening itself to more diversity,” Samoura told Forbes.
Second on the Forbes list is Lydia Nsekera of Burundi who became the became the first woman elected to the FIFA executive committee in 2013 with Florence Hardouin of France, director-general of the French football federation and the first woman elected to the executive committee of UEFA, in third.
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