Quote of the Week – Prince Ali On Women’s Football

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“I think enhancing [women’s football] is also a great socio-economic tool to empower them and I want to work very hard on that and create professional leagues for women in Asia and hopefully get more places at the World Cup for women’s football.”

Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein of Jordan, newly elected Asian Football Confederation vice president and FIFA Executive Committee member, in an interview with World Football Insider.  He also acknowledged that “in Asia we’re very different cultures, very different backgrounds, but still there can be some cultural taboos about women’s football.” Still, with all sincerity, we wish you the very best of luck, and hope that a FIFA ExCom member talking sense won't get him into too much trouble. Though it's not hard to imagine some of his colleagues whispering, "It's understandable, he's new. Now someone take him to one side and quietly explain what we don't do here..."