FPF is preparing support standards for pregnant players: “Nature”

AND. statements to journalists in Portugal Football Summit in Oeiras, Francisco Neto was asked about the pregnancy of players, a theme that gained strength in Portugal after the announcement of Diana Silva, Portuguese international Benfica, recalling three previous cases, Patrícia Gouveia, Suzanne Pires and Nádia Gomes, “all of them in different situations and all of them with different personal decisions regarding the future of their careers”.

“ The big message is that we have to face this naturally. First, with great happiness, because the players want and make that decision in their families and we will have to, as an institution, be able to respond and be able to endure. Because we know that there is no one in the world who incomes if he is not emotionally happy or stable ", assumed.

The selector said it is equally important that players feel, when they return to the competition, that they have all the support of the FPF “so that they are emotionally able to deliver to the highest level”.

“ That's my mission too, as a selector, to reassure the players in that direction. And we [FPF] as an institution are preparing a set of support and support measures that, in due course, will be presented to players and possibly also out. We want to do things right,” he said.

Neto says that this is a question not only of the players, but also of the rest of the female selection structure, one of his adjuncts was a mother shortly before the European and was given “the possibility of having the support she felt” necessary “to be emotionally comfortable”.