Bundesliga gets first female manager in Europe’s top flight 📋
· Yahoo Sports
A woman will manage a team in one of Europe’s five major football leagues for the FIRST TIME in history.
Marie-Louise Eta replaces Baumgart and will take charge of Union Berlin until the end of the season, making history (once again).
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Marie-Louise Eta had already been the first woman to sign the match sheet and the first woman to manage a team.
At the time, however, she was only filling in for coach Nenad Bjelica — who was serving a suspension at Union Berlin.
The story is different now. Marie-Louise Eta will be the full-time head coach for the final five rounds of the 2025/26 Bundesliga season.
The 33-year-old coach had been in charge of Union Berlin’s Under-19 team.
Union Berlin are in 11th place out of 18 clubs, with 32 points.
The club no longer has a chance of qualifying for European competitions, but faces only a minimal risk of relegation (they are seven points clear of the bottom three).
The next — and historic — challenge will be against Wolfsburg, at home, at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday (18).
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