{"id":79769,"date":"2026-05-11T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/79769\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:18:12","slug":"pure-joy-for-eta-after-union-give-her-first-win-in-bundesliga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/79769\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pure joy\u2019 for Eta after Union give her first win in Bundesliga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union won thanks to goals from Andrej Ilic, Oliver Burke and Josip Juranovic, while former Union forward Sheraldo Becker pulled one back for the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>Eta, the first female coach of a men\u2019s team in a top European league, took over in April and lost her first two games in charge before picking up her first point in a 2-2 home draw with Cologne last week.<\/p>\n<p>The draw secured Union\u2019s place in the Bundesliga next season.<\/p>\n<p>As she has done since taking over the role, Eta deflected questions about being the first female coach to win a Bundesliga match and praised her players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really happy that we could show such a good performance in a difficult match,\u201d she told DAZN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re happy to win games, that\u2019s always the case, and it was simply nice that we could do it in the style and manner we did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pure joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, Bakery Jatta, Luka Vuskovic and Fabio Balde scored as promoted Hamburg celebrated securing top-flight status for next season by beating Europa League finalists Freiburg 3-2 at home.<\/p>\n<p>Hamburg, who returned to the Bundesliga after seven seasons in the second division this campaign, offically beat the drop last week with a big win over Eintracht Frankfurt.<\/p>\n<p>The 1983 European Cup winners were in fine form again to defeat Freiburg, who scored two goals through Igor Matanovic.<\/p>\n<p>Freiburg could have secured a European spot with victory but will reach the Champions League and win a first major trophy in the club\u2019s history if they beat Aston Villa in Istanbul on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Heidenheim continued their late-season resurgence against the drop, winning 3-1 at Cologne thanks to a brace from Jan Schoeppner and an Arijon Ibrahimovic goal.<\/p>\n<p>Stranded in the Bundesliga basement for much of the season, Heidenheim have lost just one of their past seven.<\/p>\n<p>The win took them to 17th spot, level with 16th-placed Wolfsburg and 18th-placed St Pauli, who play each other in the season\u2019s final match next week.<\/p>\n<p>In the Bundesliga, the team in 16th plays a two-legged relegation play-off against the third-placed second division side, while teams 17th and 18th are relegated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Union won thanks to goals from Andrej Ilic, Oliver Burke and Josip Juranovic, while former Union forward Sheraldo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,190],"class_list":{"0":"post-79769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116556143433111753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79769","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=79769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}