Union Berlin has made history. The eleventh-placed Bundesliga side has appointed Marie-Louise Eta (34) as its new head coach, making her the first woman to hold such a position in a top European league.<\/p>\n
Following Saturday\u2019s humiliating 3-1 loss at FC Heidenheim, the club\u2019s Berlin-based hierarchy sacked Steffen Baumgart and promoted Eta from her role as Under-19 coach.<\/p>\n
Union hopes Eta\u2019s appointment will spark an immediate turnaround. \u201cWe have had a very disappointing second half of the season so far, and we are not being misled by our position in the Bundesliga,\u201d the club stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in a difficult position and urgently need points to secure our place in the league.\u201d
\nUnion are currently mid-table but sit only seven points above the relegation zone.<\/p>\n
Since the winter break they have won only two of fourteen matches, and as general manager Horst Heldt admits, \u201cWe no longer believe we can continue on the same path.\u201d \u201cI am delighted that Marie-Louise has agreed to take on this role on an interim basis. Before she becomes head coach of the professional women\u2019s team in the summer, as planned.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eta, who in November 2023 had become the Bundesliga\u2019s first female assistant coach, will sit on the bench for the first time next week when Union Berlin host VfL Wolfsburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Union Berlin has made history. The eleventh-placed Bundesliga side has appointed Marie-Louise Eta (34) as its new head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,35702],"class_list":{"0":"post-387973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-union-berlin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}