EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL EXPLORES GENDER EQUALITY IN NEW DOCUMENTARY SERIES

March 15, 2019

To commemorate Women’s History Month, Euroleague Basketball has launched a new documentary series which investigates the status of gender equity at the highest levels of European professional basketball.

The new documentary "Table Talk: Women in Sports" brings together four female leaders in their fields for an informal conversation, at both a personal and professional level, on their roles in four sectors of the basketball community.

Roser Queralto, the Chief Business Officer at Euroleague Basketball, hosts the discussion in her native Barcelona while sharing her own opinions and experiences in the league from its founding in 2000 until today.

"From the management perspective, I see a huge difference between the number of women that you could see in meetings when I started and the ones we can see now," Queralto explains in opening the discussion." And you cannot imagine how many times when going to a game with one of my colleagues, they thought I was the wife of one of them."

Sukran Albayrak, a former Turkish national basketball player who is now a TV sports presenter with BeIN Media Group, brings anecdotes from her careers both on and off the court.

"My secret is don't give up. Winning or losing doesn't matter, but don't give up and keep pushing," she says during the talk. "Also in the media sector, women don't have to be only in front of the camera. It's also nice to see them behind the camera."

Along with the two other representatives, their conversation sheds new light on the vital importance of women in the basketball business environment – and on the opportunities and challenges that they face. Watch the first full video below:

Our sister agency, thinkBeyond, has supported Euroleague Basketball for several years  in the design and delivery of their One Team program.