US EditionUnion Berlin's Eta becomes first female coach in top-five European leagues
Eta, 34, becomes the first woman to coach a men’s Bundesliga team and must lift Union Berlin with five matches left.
- 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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Forty-eight hours after appointing Marie-Louise Eta as the first lead coach in a club of the five major football leagues in Europe, Union Berlin saw the need to go out and support her, while top executives condemned sexist comments on social networks.Eta, 34, was in charge of Union Berlin's male Sub 19 and has a brief experience as an assistant in the first division.She will replace Steffen Baumgart, fired the weekend after the 3-1 defeat agains…
The Union Berlin announced that the new interim coach of the male professional team, replacing Steffen Baumgart, will be Marie-Louise Eta, who will become the first woman to train a Bundesliga team. Eta will take care of training the German club, whose eleven youths were already training until now, at least during the final phase of the season and in the fight to stay in the first division, after losing on Saturday 3-1 against Heidenheim. After …
Marie-Louise Eta will be in charge of Union Berlin in the Bundesliga for the rest of the season.
Union Berlin’s crisis collides with a historic first for the Bundesliga
The moment Union Berlin announced Marie‑Louise Eta as interim head coach, German football crossed a threshold it had never approached, let alone stepped over. Eta, 34, became the first woman to lead a men’s team in the Bundesliga, a milestone that reverberated far beyond Köpenick. But this wasn’t a ceremonial appointment or a symbolic gesture. It was a decision forged in crisis, urgency and the cold reality of a season slipping away. Union Berli…
Bundestrainer Christian Wück wishes Marie-Louise Eta every success at Union Berlin. The head coach of the German female footballers sees the personality as a sign for all of Germany.
Marie-Louise Eta takes responsibility at Union Berlin in a delicate phase. The club reacts to devalued tweets with all clarity.
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