Four months ago, Marie-Louise Eta attracted a lot of attention as the first assistant coach of a men’s Bundesliga team, and in the future she would like to see more normality on this topic. The 32-year-old, who has been on the sidelines at Union Berlin since mid-November, reported that she never wanted this “special role in itself” in an interview with the Berliner Morgenpost: “Accordingly, I would like it to be for those who want to come to me, is a little more normal.”
Nevertheless, she is “of course very happy to accept this role,” emphasized Eta: “And I’m also happy if you can inspire or motivate other women and girls to perhaps follow the same path.” After the end of the Urs Fischer era, the former German champion and Champions League winner looked after the team alongside interim coach Marco Grote and is also supporting Nenad Bjelica as assistant coach for the time being.
Eta is still satisfied with this, but does not rule out a managerial role in the future. “I am currently happy that I can be part of this team,” she said: “I can also well imagine being a head coach at some point in the future and that it is also possible at this level for a woman to be a head coach It’s on the sidelines. But at the moment that doesn’t matter to me.”
Of course, she understands the high level of attention that comes with her position as the first assistant coach, explained Eta. In general, she also wants it to be “a given that there aren’t 20 cameras in front of you all at once, as was the case with me in the first game shortly before kick-off. It would be nice if it became more normal at some point.”
There was “total openness” and “respect” in the Union team right from the start, explained Eta, who had previously worked for the U19 team: “I had imagined it would be a little more difficult at the beginning. But that was really nice “How the boys welcomed me.”
2024-03-08 10:55:33
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