{"id":60852,"date":"2026-04-14T15:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/60852\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:04:46","slug":"union-berlin-keep-door-open-for-permanent-appointment-of-interim-coach-marie-louise-eta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/60852\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Berlin keep door open for permanent appointment of interim coach Marie-Louise Eta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After parting ways with Steffen Baumgart as head coach, 1. FC Union Berlin turned to U19 coach Marie-Louise Eta, appointing her on an interim basis for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, the German capital club made history, with Eta becoming the first woman to coach a men\u2019s team in Europe\u2019s top five leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>As things stand, the 34-year-old is due to take over the club\u2019s women\u2019s team in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>However, managing director for professional football Horst Heldt has not ruled out the possibility of her remaining in charge of the men\u2019s side if things go well for the rest of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will put all our focus on the match against Wolfsburg. At this point in time, it would not make sense to rule anything out. We have a general plan. We will see how things will continue,\u201d Heldt todl reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bulinews.com\/union-berlin-targeting-2-bundesliga-coach-baumgart-permanent-successor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Karlsruher SC head coach Christian Eichner has also been touted as a possible permanent replacement for Baumgart.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Karlsruher SC head coach Christian Eichner has also been touted as a possible permanent replacement for Baumgart.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Karlsruher SC head coach Christian Eichner has also been touted as a possible permanent replacement for Baumgart.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s simply embarrassing\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heldt also condemned sexist comments directed at Eta on social media following her appointment, describing them as \u201cembarrassing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find it unbelievable that we still have to deal with this and have to justify ourselves in this day and age. We are talking about a highly competent leader,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can be sure that everyone here at Union Berlin, whether in the stands or at the club itself, stands 100 percent behind this decision. And we will do everything we can to ensure that this does not become a topic of discussion in the future. It&#8217;s simply embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After parting ways with Steffen Baumgart as head coach, 1. FC Union Berlin turned to U19 coach Marie-Louise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[2606,112,32794,190,25670,33534,33232,20698,2353],"class_list":{"0":"post-60852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-appointment","9":"tag-berlin","10":"tag-eta","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-horst-heldt","13":"tag-interim-basis","14":"tag-interim-coach","15":"tag-steffen-baumgart","16":"tag-union-berlin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116403677850672572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}