🚨 A woman to become head coach! Bundesliga club sacks boss | OneFootball

That came a bit unexpectedly! After the 1:3 defeat at FC Heidenheim, Union Berlin announced during the night leading into Sunday that head coach Steffen Baumgart and his assistant coaches had been relieved of their duties.

“We would like to thank the three of them for their work, to which we owe our secure survival in the league last season and a good points tally in the first half of this campaign. We wish them all the best both professionally and personally,” the capital club quoted managing director Horst Heldt as saying on ‘X’.

So Baumgart has to go and will be succeeded by a woman – at least for now. As Union also announced on the platform, Marie-Louise Eta, previously coach of the U19 juniors and future head coach of the club’s women’s first team, will take charge of the Bundesliga side until the end of the season.

She will take over the role with immediate effect and said she was pleased that the club had entrusted her with this demanding task. “One of Union’s strengths has always been, and still is, bringing all our forces together in situations like this. And of course I’m convinced that with this team we will pick up the crucial points,” said Eta in her first statement with a view to the final stretch of the season.

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