Assisat Oshoala, Billie Jean lined-up to speak at FIFA conference
– Asisat Oshoala will speak at the 2nd edition of the FIFA Women’s Football and Leadership Conference
– Other speakers include Billie Jean King, Abby Wambach, Amanda Davies
– The conference is themed “Equality Through Reform”
Super Falcons attacker Asisat Oshoala is among the list of speakers confirmed for the 2nd edition of the FIFA Women’s Football and Leadership Conference.
Asisat Oshoala. Credit: Getty Images
The conference would be held at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland on Monday 7 March.
The conference theme is entitled “Equality Through Reform”.
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Panel speakers on Taking women’s football to the next level:
Asisat Lamina Oshoala (Nigeria national team player)
Abby Wambach (USA national team player)
Samar Nassar (Chief Executive Director of the Local Organising Committee for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Jordan 2016)
Barbara Slater (Director of BBC Sport)
Brigitte Henriques (General Secretary of the French Football Association)
Panel speakers on Diversity for success:
Ebru Köksal (FIFA consultant)
Michael Kimmel (Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Stony Brook University)
Donna de Varona (Olympic champion, lead advisor to the EY Women Athletes Business Network)
Felicite Rwemarika (Executive member and chairwoman of the Women’s Football Commission at the Rwandan Football Association)
Annie Zaidi (Founder of the CoachAnnieZ Foundation)
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Panel speakers on 2016 FIFA reforms – women’s football and women in football:
Sunil Gulati (President of the United States Soccer Federation)
Moya Dodd (FIFA Executive Committee co-opted member)
Sarai Bareman (OFC Deputy General Secretary)
Sylvia Schenk (CAS arbitrator)
Amanda Davies (CNN Sports Anchor/Correspondent)
A FIFA representative
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