“It is fantastic news that a woman leads an elite men’s team”

The Spanish coach soccer, Sonia Bermudez, This Tuesday, he described the hiring of Marie-Louise Eta as coach of Union Berlin as “fantastic news”, becoming the first woman to coach a team in the five major men’s European leagues.

“It’s fantastic news that I’m going to lead an elite men’s team. It’s fantastic news. The important thing is knowledge, work and not gender. It is the path that must be followed, it is progress for football and also for women,” he said at the press conference prior to the match between England and Spain, corresponding to the qualifying phase for the 2027 World Cup.

He Union Berlin announced this Sunday that the new interim coach of the men’s professional team, in Steffen Baumgart’s replacement will be Eta.

The important thing is knowledge, work and not gender

The coach will be in charge of directing the Berlin team, whose youth eleven she has already trained until now, at least during the final phase of the season and in the fight to stay in the First Division, after lose on Saturday 3-1 against Heidenheim.

After the remaining five gamesthe 34-year-old coach will be the future head coach of the women’s team, but for the moment she will take on the new task with immediate effect. Eta is the first woman in history to take charge of a men’s team in the Bundesliga, after in 2023 she became the first co-coach of the Bundesliga and even the Champions League.