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ATHENS, Greece -- Europes female representative on FIFAs ruling council is determined to narrow the financial disparities between the mens and womens game, and she also wants to eradicate a stupid cliche about women in the sport.Evelina Christillin, a veteran Italian sports executive who worked on Turins 2006 Olympic bid before being a top official on the Winter Games, was elected unopposed on Wednesday by the UEFA Congress. She takes up one of six new guaranteed FIFA leadership roles for women in a drive for greater gender equality in the male-dominated sport.I think female football is a wonderful sport, Christillin said after the congress of European soccers governing body. They are wonderful athletes and so they have to be respected and possibly paid not as much as men but at least recognized, honored and praised.While FIFA gave out $576 million in prize money at the last mens World Cup in 2014, including $35 million for champion Germany, the global governing body awarded only $15 million at last years Womens World Cup, with $2 million going to the champion United States.We have to work to improve and to boost these conditions both financially and sporting (for women), Christillin said. The same prize (money) would be difficult at the very beginning but little by little I think that this can be.Asked about changing womens football, Christillin said: Its very important because I hate this stupid cliche about women looking like false men playing football.Christillin will arrive at her first FIFA Council meeting next month as an outsider, saying it will be her first visit to Zurich where the organization is based.You dont have to scream or beat your hands on the table to make yourself heard and understood, she said. If you show yourself capable and lets say, not with authority, but with capability and sometimes with a smile (it) is not difficult.The largesse around FIFA sits uncomfortably with Christillin.I think many things have to be changed in terms of a moral way of living, less money for the executives, more money for building facilities and restructuring the ones deserving it, she said. It has to be a little rebranded and reshaped the world of football without corruption, without money wasted, without privileges.That includes the $300,000 paid annually to FIFA Council members for the part-time role.There is no reason why earning such an amount of money for doing a representative job, Christillin said. We should be honored by having the responsibility and the task of representing sport.At the UEFA Congress, Christillin held talks with FIFA President Gianni Infantino, whose leadership style and decision-making has faced criticism in his first seven months in power.I know he had a lot of difficulties in the beginning, Christillin said. Its very difficult to change because the resistance of the predecessor is very hard to fight ... (Infantino) had problems with the press, the old guard.He is trying to diminish very much what Blatter did and the previous administration was earning or getting ... he is very convinced that so many privileges in terms of financial (costs) -- super hotels, super first-class trips and so on have to be canceled. And if this does not happen I will fight for that.---Rob Harris is at www.twitter.com/RobHarris and www.facebook.com/RobHarrisReports David Freese Dodgers Jersey Joc Pederson Jersey . Robredo, ranked No. 16, bounced back from an upset loss to Leonardo Mayer in the second round of the Royal Guard Open in Chile last week to down Carreno Busta in 1 hour, 25 minutes. 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For NBA fans and arena workers who enjoy watching basketball or need the income from working games, the knowledge that not a single second of next season will be lost to labor strife is welcome relief.For everyone else in the basketball business, its just life continuing on. The new CBA feels like a tie between owners and players. That counts as a quasi-victory for the players, but its a reminder of just how big a victory the 2011 lockout was for the owners. They got what they wanted and felt they needed at that time, even if it took away about two months of the season.The amicable nature and accelerated pace of negotiations this time around made it seem as if the owners took a look at the dessert menu after a satisfying meal and said, Nahhh, were good.Their big achievement in 2011 was lowering the players share of basketball-related revenue from 57 percent to around 50 percent. It was a victory that grew in magnitude when the new national TV deals came in at $24 billion over nine years. The 6 percent difference was worth an extra $1.4 billion to the owners from the ESPN and TNT contracts alone.Five years ago, the owners were willing to lose two months worth of games and push the start of the season back to Christmas Day in order to get what they wanted. The players were willing to make the same sacrifices in an attempt to hold off the changes, until both sides averted the Armageddon of a lost season by reaching a deal. They missed games because ultimately they could afford to do so. They werent even punished by the fans, as regular-season television ratings actually increased during the shortened season.Even though history told both sides they could have gotten away with another work stoppage, they had no desire this time. There might have been points worth arguing but nothing that escalated into a fight. A league that has always been image-conscious (e.g., the dress code) also realized it would be a bad look to squabble over money at a time when franchise values and player contracts had soared.The rush to make a deal also meant that some of the unpopular practices of the league wont be addressed at the highest possible level, via the collective bargaining agreement. One such example played out just as the new agreement was being announced, with stars such as LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Kevin LLove, DeMarcus Cousins and LaMarcus Aldridge sitting out as preventive measures, rather than because of serious injuries.dddddddddddd.(I happened to be working the Spurs game Wednesday night, and in a pregame meeting with coach Gregg Popovich, he waved off his role as the forefather of that movement. Pop said he didnt draw some scientific conclusion; he simply started the practice in order to extend the career of Tim Duncan after Duncans knee injury forced Popovich to shut him down for the 2000 playoffs).There will be incremental measures to avoid the resting epidemic, such as shortening the preseason and spreading out the NBA calendar to decrease the schedule density. But we wont see the dramatic step of shortening the regular season.Its interesting to keep in mind that while the 82-game season might be difficult to change without high-level negotiations, the ability to lighten the players workload by changing the playoffs is not. The 2003 decision to extend the first round from best-of-five to best-of-seven not only happened mid-CBA -- it happened midseason. But good luck trying to take playoff games away from the networks shelling out all of those billions.What is left to be seen are the unintended consequences of the new agreement. For example, in the expiring CBA, the rules made it financially beneficial for a player to hit free agency rather than sign a contract extension, even if he had no desire to leave his current team, a loophole thats been addressed in the new deal.That CBA also failed to anticipate the impact that a huge jump in television revenue would have on the salary cap, which led to the one-time spike this summer that facilitated the contract explosion and allowed the Warriors to sign Kevin Durant. Surely there will be some kinks in the new deal that even the brightest negotiators and best-paid lawyers didnt anticipate.And as always, any built-in attempts to prevent the formation of superteams can be undone by players willingness to take less money.For now, though, there are no major complaints from either side. Any professional sports work stoppage is a failure by the richest members of a lucrative industry to realize how good they have it.That isnt the case in the NBA right now. The message they sent by reaching this agreement is that theyre appreciative. We all can appreciate that. ' ' '