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UEFA No. 189 No.189 • March/April 2020 No.189 HOW IT ALL BEGAN EDITORIAL Theodore Theodoridis UEFA General Secretary UEFA CONTINUES TO EMPOWER AND INNOVATE IN WOMEN’S FOOTBALL hose of us who work in football can sometimes forget the magic of the game that inspired us to love it in the first place. Of course, players do not learn to love and play the game just by magic. It is UEFA’s T duty as European football’s governing body to empower people to play the game, and, through the unique UEFA-Disney Playmakers programme for girls aged five to eight, we will open up football to an audience not yet engaged with our sport. Inspired by storytelling in films such as Incredibles 2, the programme is the first-ever major pan-European grassroots football programme for girls and will be rolled out in seven countries this year. The aim is to create an environment where imaginations can run wild as an iconic Disney story is told through movement and play. This unique programme can be the spark for a more active generation of football-loving girls. When we launched Time for Action, our new strategy for women’s football last year, we laid out goals, strategies and outcomes that will ensure European football is as great as it can be. Playmakers is just one part of that commitment, and we look forward to working with Disney and our national association partners to realise the enormous potential of the programme. Elsewhere, UEFA has listened to leading female players and learned of the sacrifices they had to make starting out playing the game; the lack of facilities and their long journeys to training and matches. Inspired by their experiences, UEFA has started a regional development programme for women’s football. By funding regional footballing structures and education in Europe, the programme will ensure girls in their early teens do not have to travel far to fulfil their football dreams. Those dreams can become reality in the UEFA Women’s Champions League, which will have a new format from 2021/22, including a 16-team group stage. The competition will now have more matches, centralised marketing and exclusive matchdays that do not clash with other major football competitions. UEFA is championing and innovating women’s football at all levels of the game. UEFA DIRECT • March/April 2020 – 03 CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE MARCH/APRIL 2020 Official publication of the Union of European Football Associations Chief editor: Emmanuel Deconche Deputy chief editor: Dominique Maurer Chief writer: Mark Chaplin Subeditor: Susan Angel External contributors: Julien Duez (pages 6-11) Julien Hernandez (pages 14-15) Sam Adams (pages 22-23) Simon Hart (pages 26-31) Translations: UEFA Language Services Production: Touchline Printing: Artgraphic Cavin, Presse Sports CH-1422 Grandson Editorial deadline: 16 History 11 February 2020 Looking back at the origins of the European Championship, the brainchild of Henri Delaunay. Cover photo: The Yugoslavia captain Branko Zebec swaps pennants with France 12 UEFA in brief international Jean Vincent before their teams’ semi-final. Curiously, France’s captain was not Vincent, but Maryan Wiesniewski. 22 EURO 2020 Presse Sports Presenting St Petersburg. 32 UEFA Grow Information technology is a crucial issue for national associations if they are to function effectively. 35 News from member associations CONTENTS xxx Sportsfile Jana Pipar 24 Refereeing Majorca was the venue for UEFA’s 6 Special feature winter refereeing courses. Estonia are hosting the European Under-17 Championship final tournament in May, providing the ideal opportunity to find out more about football in this Baltic state. Getty Images FFF 14 UEFA Women’s Champions League 26 The Technician Ahead of the quarter-finals, UEFA Direct looks at which Five Under-17 national team coaches explain their challenger could break Lyon’s dominance of the competition. approach to coaching in this age category. UEFA DIRECT • March/April 2020 – 05 SPECIAL FEATURE ESTONIA: WHEN THE ORDINARY BECOMES EXTRAORDINARY Almost 30 years since regaining its independence from the Soviet Union, Estonia is constantly striving to keep football centre stage. In the country of Mart Poom and Konstantin Vassiljev, football is the most popular sport and has set itself the ambition of helping to improve society as a whole. Drawing inspiration from neighbouring Finland in terms of its structure, the Estonian FA hopes its national team will one day qualify for a major tournament. round 40km west of Tallinn, the helps himself to a slice of salt-crusted small town of Laulasmaa provides pork, a local speciality. Aan idyllic setting for residents of the Around him, children play between the Estonian capital to recharge their batteries tables under their parents’ watchful eyes. after a hard week at work. Between the “The board members’ families are seemingly endless pine forests and the long always invited to join us. They don’t beach on the Baltic Sea, visitors here have take part in the meetings, but they can the chance to re-energise themselves while enjoy the spa. Since the members are all enjoying the peace and quiet of this part of volunteers, it’s a way of thanking them Harju county. for their commitment,” he continues Even in the meeting room at the local between mouthfuls. spa, the atmosphere is relaxed, despite the afternoon’s packed agenda, as the board One big family of the Estonian Football Association (EJL) Since its rebirth in 1991, the Estonian FA gathers for a three-day meeting to discuss has been operating like a big family, with its road map to 2025. Aivar Pohlak as its patriarch. “It’s a tradition here: we move around The 57-year-old EJL president is not each year and hold our board yearly vision exactly what you might expect the leader meeting in a different county so we can of a national football association to look visit all the regional leagues,” explains like: with long grey hair and a bushy EJL spokesperson Mihkel Uiboleht as he beard, he wears a thick Nordic-style “Because football had disappeared from Estonian society, the association’s first task was to re-establish a football culture.” Aivar Pohlak Jana Pipar EJL President 06 – UEFA DIRECT • March/April 2020 SPECIAL FEATURE Danil Kuraskin attempts to outflank André Ferreira in a friendly between Portugal and Estonia (2-0) on 20 September 2019. Liisi Troska UEFA DIRECT • March/April 2020 – 07 SPECIAL FEATURE sweater and a pair of brand-new white meetings, it is in his role as EJL president republic not to have any clubs in the trainers. that he sits down for a moment to share Soviet championship.” “I apologise in advance because I speak the story of Estonian football. So, when Estonia regained its from the heart and my heart doesn’t Football has always enjoyed unparalleled independence in 1991, it is easy to speak very good English,” he says with popularity in this former Soviet republic of understand why football was considered great modesty, since his knowledge of 1.3 million people, albeit with a few bumps ‘a sport played by Russians, like ice Shakespeare’s language is impeccable. along the way. The national association hockey’. In the late twentieth century, “If we had spoken in Estonian, I would was founded in 1921, a year after the Estonians tended to prefer basketball or have been able to read a book at the same Sinisärgid (blue jerseys) played their first Nordic skiing. But Aivar Pohlak refused to time!” he jokes. match, a 6-0 friendly defeat at the hands lose heart and, along with a number of In fact, Aivar Pohlak is a true master of their Finnish neighbours. close friends (many of them intellectuals of the national language, a multitalented It joined FIFA in 1923 and, the following and academics), rolled up his sleeves and individual who has worn numerous hats year, took part in an international set about the task of reviving football in over the years: a former poet, children’s tournament for the first and only time his country. author and teacher of maths and Estonian, to date: the Olympic Games in Paris. “In 1992, when we played our first he played as a striker for many years and, in “What followed was rather depressing,” match since independence, against 1990, with a group of friends, founded FC sighs Aivar Pohlak. “During the four Slovenia on 3 June, there were only 26 Flora Tallinn, a club whose 11 league titles decades of Soviet occupation, Estonian players in the national championship who make it one of the giants of the Premium football culture completely disappeared. were eligible to wear the Estonian jersey. League (the Estonian first division). The hardest period was between 1969 and In other words, we hardly needed a However, in this break between 1983, when Estonia was the only Soviet selection process at all!” smiles the Estonia's Under-17s have every reason to be optimistic as they prepare for the European finals on home soil in May. Trailing 2-0, they fought back to beat Under-17 heavyweights Spain 3-2 last September. Konstantin Vassiljev in action during the EURO 2020 qualifier between Estonia and Belarus (1-2). president, who was the national team’s assistant coach at the time. Rome was not built in a day That inaugural match against Slovenia in Tallinn finished as an honourable 1-1 draw. But the result, like that of the matches that followed, was of little importance, since the main priority lay elsewhere. “Because football had disappeared from Estonian society, the association’s first task was to re-establish a football culture,” says Jana Pipar Aivar Pohlak.
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