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CONCERN: Lise Klaveness, here during the 2019 World Cup in France, fears the consequences of a 2020 without football in Norway. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB scanpix
A concerned 38-year-old Lise Klaveness is leading the effort to discover how Norwegian football can make the activity work again according to guidelines from health authorities.
Statements by infection control experts that football in 2020 is unrealistic have raised concern in the environment this week.
After a few days of silence, elite director Klaveness of the Norwegian Football Association (NFF) now chooses to comment on the matter.
– If there were no football in 2020, it would create irreparable harm to Norwegian football. The Norwegian football model as we know it is at stake. Therefore, we must find out what we can do to start the activity as far as is reasonable, ”he tells VG.
Klaveness emphasizes that they, of course, prioritize life and health, and are loyal to health authorities. But at a time when people are gradually easing some restrictions on society, the 38-year-old is eager to focus on soccer as a major industry.
– We have to stop talking about this is not so important, because it is. It is not critical to health and society, but it is important in line with other industries that involve thousands of people, and that it is a haven for hundreds of thousands of children. We must make it clear that we are afraid of the future and that we are proactive.
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The Elite Director refers to more than 2,300 employees at Soccer-Norway and that “top-level soccer income is a crucial source of income for soccer and for all of Soccer-Norway.”
– There is a great industry at stake. It is a business that is much more than just entertainment. It is more than “yes, yes, we just have to endure.” There are many thousands of employees, an emotionally important arena for hundreds of thousands of people, and an irreplaceable part of a soccer movement that creates belonging and identity, says Klaveness.
At the moment, football matches cannot be played again until June 15 due to the ban on all sporting events that do not meet the two-meter distance requirement and groups of maximum five people.
But for soccer clubs to be ready to play again in late June, they need several weeks of full body contact training. Central to the work of NFF and Norsk Toppfotball (NTF) now is to come up with suggestions on how football clubs can get started with this as soon as possible.
– Training is the focus now, because it is the first step. We need to be proactive in discovering how contact training can be carried out, of course, within a framework that is considered justifiable in terms of infection. That is what we are working on now, ”confirms Klaveness.
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– What does this all mean?
– It is too early for us to discuss it in the media. It is very important to get credibility and good data on this, so unfortunately I cannot be very specific. We are not there to be able to make that conversation public, but there are processes that are based on what can be started while life and health definitely should come first, Klaveness says.
She does not want to comment on what she thinks of the opinions of experts who sowed strong doubts about the 2020 soccer season, but she expresses to herself that she does not agree with the grim messages.
“We believe and hope to find data that will allow us to slowly but surely reopen soccer in a safe environment,” says Klaveness.
Earlier this week, Kåre Ingebrigtsen warned against Norway by running a solo career at Football Europe when it comes to canceling the football season. His point is that one should wait and see what happens in the major soccer nations, such as England and Germany.
– I agree that international mapping is extremely important. There are at least as many crises as elsewhere, and we have had a good development in Norway. There are other countries that are aware of the crisis, but are still working specifically on how soccer can start again because it is a very important industry for many people and because in superior soccer we generally have good opportunities to make infectious adaptations of the activity. and events.
– We look at them in this work. It would be foolish and arrogant of us to think that we should control this and move on alone, says Lise Klaveness.
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