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Referee Bibiana Steinhaus-Webb is one of the initiators of the call
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Nine prominent women from the field of football have joined forces in a network and, in a position paper entitled "Football can do more", call for far-reaching changes at the German Football Association (DFB).
A separate candidacy for the presidency after the resignation of incumbent Fritz Keller is also considered.
The signatories of the concept include national goalkeeper Almuth Schult, referee Bibiana Steinhaus-Webb, former functionary Katja Kraus, ZDF journalist Claudia Neumann and former ran presenter Gaby Papenburg, who are responsible for the presidency of the Berlin Football Association ( BFV) applies.
Kraus is considered a possible candidate to succeed the resigned DFB President Fritz Keller.
You actually have “no ambitions” for the office, said the former board member of Hamburger SV at “Zeit Online”, “but of course, a demand for change is also an obligation to take responsibility.
I take a very close look at where, under what circumstances and, above all, in what constellations I would do that. "
Kraus "the perfect candidate"
According to Papenburg, Kraus would be "the perfect candidate".
According to Papenburg, the fact that the DFB is deep in crisis can be a “stroke of luck” for the ambitions of the women, “because it is obvious that the previous, hermetic system is crumbling.
I hope that this will result in more openness and acceptance for our demands «.
The position paper explicitly calls for more female managers.
“The integration of new decision-makers is a central aspect in shaping the future of German football,” it says: “Women in management positions have been shown to increase the likelihood of meeting future challenges with new solutions, recognizing structural weaknesses more quickly and adopting action patterns question that they have not established themselves. "
Among other things, the paper requires a binding quota of women of 30 percent in management positions at football associations: “Our concern is that there will soon be significantly more women in all areas of football who work in top positions and paint a fair and contemporary image of football . "
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