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Michel Zen-Ruffinen
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If ever we needed evidence of the impact of FIFA Magazine, we received it at the Symposium on Women's Football in Los Angeles.
One delegate after another asked if FIFA Magazine could not do more to promote women's football by devoting a regular section to the women's game. Our editor, delighted to hear it confirmed that national associations and other readers regarded the Magazine as such an influential communications tool,http://jojerseys.net/, fended the questions by stressing that it was FIFA's policy to treat all stories and information on intrinsic merit in an effort to integrate them into the game as a whole, rather than to separate one sector of our sport from another.
Indeed this is so. We have always felt it would be self-defeating to rigidly compartmentalise our sport in these pages. A self-imposed obligation to include a feature on women's football, or on youth football, or on sports medicine or fair play or whatever, could seriously backfire if suitable quality material were not always available.
Instead, FIFA Magazine goes where the topical stories take it, at the same time as presenting background articles to significant trends in the game's history, present or future.
A quick look at the contents of this edition will show how widely the Magazine casts its net: features on three players from three different continents currently starring in Europe (Roberto Carlos from South America,http://cauthenticjerseys.org/, Kanu from Africa and Nakata from Asia), a guest column from Oceania, the success of the US women in the spectacular World Cup on home soil, a report on the Confederations Cup in Mexico ... a worldwide line-up to mirror the world game.
Of course FIFA Magazine also serves to promote and to inform about FIFA's own projects, and in this edition we focus especially on the new development initiative, GOAL. This complex new project is still in its initial phase, and we believe the article on the following pages will serve to clarify the aims and methodology envisaged for the years ahead.
By trying to maintain this balance between covering our own activities and other football stories not directly related to FIFA, we aim to produce a magazine that sets itself apart somewhat from most federation periodicals. We hope the women's football lobby - constantly growing encouragingly - will understand this, too.