US EditionUnion Berlin's Eta becomes first female coach in top-five European leagues
Eta will lead Union for five matches as the club tries to avoid relegation after winning only two of 14 games since the winter break.
- On Sunday, Bundesliga club Union Berlin appointed Marie-Louise Eta as head coach, making her the first female manager of a men's team in a top-five European league.
- The club sacked Steffen Baumgart late Saturday following a 3-1 defeat to bottom-side Heidenheim, after the team won just two games in 14 matches since the winter break.
- Previously the club's Under-19 coach, Eta became the Bundesliga's first female assistant in 2023 and won the 2010 Women's Champions League with Turbine Potsdam as a player.
- With five games remaining, Eta warned that "survival in the Bundesliga is not yet secure," with the team seven points above the relegation play-off spot.
- Eta will serve on an interim basis before transitioning to head coach of Union's women's team this summer, as originally planned before this emergency appointment.
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34-year-old Marie-Louise This became the coach of the Berlin Football Club "Union" on the club's website, replacing Steffen Baumgart, who was dismissed because of the team's poor performance.
Little did Marie-Louise Eta, at 26, imagine when her career in German professional football came to a premature end, that it would ultimately prove instrumental in breaking paradigms and changing, in one way or another, the history of…
A woman at the head of a club of one of the five largest European leagues, this had never happened. This anomaly is now corrected, since Marie-Louise Eta was appointed coach of the Union Berlin this year.
"It is clear that he is here because of his merits, not because of his gender," they defend from the German club, which has responded to the sexist criticisms he has faced after the announcement
The European football is a historic moment with the appointment of Marie-Louise Eta as the Union of Berlin. At 34 years of age, Germany becomes the first woman to command a male team in the five main links of the continent (Germany, England, Spain, Italy and France). The decision takes place after the resignation of Steffen Baumgart, resulting from the defeat by 3-1 for Heidenheim in Bundeslig. Until then assistant to the main team and trainer o…
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