Warner: Reject mediocrity in women’s football

CONCACAF president Jack Austin Warner made a stirring plea to participants at a FIFA/CONCACAF women football workshop to commit themselves to the development of the women’s game. At the Dr Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence where England coach and FIFA instructor Hope Powell, and FIFA director of women football Tatjana Haenni began a three-day workshop, Warner urged the participants to reject mediocrity in all its forms. He said, “to do otherwise would be to confine women football to second class status.

“You must fight against any suggestion that women must play a different kind of football with different rules and regulations.” Warner said “sometimes there is too much lip service paid to women football and we do not give the game enough respect. “A more serious effort must be made to promote women’s football and I charge all 34 of you here today with the responsibiliity to do so when you return to your countries and associations. Haenni started the workshop yesterday with a lecture on the History of Women’s Football.