UEFA President Michel Platini of Tuesday visited the National Center for Women's football (Zentrum für Nationale Frauenfußball) in St Polten, Austria, at the invitation of the Austrian Football Federation (OFB).
The women's soccer academy offers first class facilities for girls in the quest to achieve the highest level women's football and is funded in part by HatTrick investment program for the national federations.
Michel Platini said: "I'm always happy to see investment in this action UEFA and the Austrian Football Federation has done a great job here. This center will support the girls playing at the base to give the crucial step and reach the first equipment. "
The National Center for Women's football is part of the National Association for the development of talent and aims to help youth transition to professional football. It offers intensive training in tactical and technical excellence. The development of young athletes is also supported and actively promoted. In addition to training first class football, the girls studying at the Academy have the opportunity to continue their studies. The issues of higher education on offer include sports science, sports medicine and psychology.
Women's football is growing in importance and number (up to date with UEFA over 1.8 million female players federation in Europe). The flagship women's competitions of the UEFA Champions League is UEFA's Women's played the second round this month. The Austrian club that plays Champions League UEFA Women this year is the SV Neulengbach, which begins its season on Sept. 28. The final of the 2011/12 campaign will be held on May 17 in Munich.
The continued commitment of the UEFA women's football is especially prominent through its HatTrick initiative. In December 2010, the UEFA Executive Committee decided to allocate 100,000 euros to each of the 53 UEFA member associations each year between 2012 and 2016 through HatTrick to develop women's football.
Moreover, four associations were selected to receive funding of € 50,000 under a pilot scheme to develop women's football. This has led to the Republic of Ireland to create the women's national league in Portugal and the setting is performed on stage with women's football. After the initial success of the plan, decided to renew the operation for the 2011/12 season the increase in funding to 40 national federations.Annex
* The future of women's football
* Visit the U-16 Azerbaijan
* New women's league in Ireland
* Mourning the death of Kapl
* The best derbies Austria
* The World Cup opens new frontiers
* The Lightning will face Vantaa
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