Målfrid Kuvås


Målfrid Kuvås (2 February 1942 - 12 May 2011) is a Norwegian advocate for women's football in Norway who helped to reverse the ban on the sport and to Norway getting their first games.[1][2] Kuvås is widely viewed as the mother of Norwegian women's football.[3][4][5][6][7]

Målfrid Kuvås
Personal information
Date of birth (1942-02-02)2 February 1942
Place of birth Børsa, Norway
Date of death 12 May 2011(2011-05-12) (aged 69)

References
  1. Hong, Fan (February 7, 2004). Soccer, Women, Sexual Liberation: Kicking Off a New Era. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780714684086 – via Google Books.
  2. Wrack, Suzanne (August 23, 2022). A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Soccer. Triumph Books. ISBN 9781637270516 – via Google Books.
  3. Skogvang, Bente Ovedie (April 3, 2019). "Scandinavian women's football: the importance of male and female pioneers in the development of the sport". Sport in History. 39 (2): 207–228. doi:10.1080/17460263.2019.1618389. S2CID 181902600 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
  4. "From Show Games to Ballon d'Or: The Progress of Women's Football in Norway".
  5. Schlesinger, Torsten; Weigelt-Schlesinger, Yvonne (February 7, 2012). Sport in Globalised Societies. Changes and Challenges: Book of Abstracts. Waxmann Verlag. ISBN 9783830977179 – via Google Books.
  6. Scraton, Sheila; Magee, Jonathan; Caudwell, Jayne; Liston, Katie (January 30, 2008). Women, Football and Europe: Histories, Equity and Experience. Meyer & Meyer Verlag. ISBN 9781841262253 – via Google Books.
  7. "Upfront and Onside: Women, Football, History and Heritage Special Edition; Introduction Women's Football and The #MeToo movement 2019" (PDF).
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