Union Berlin\u2019s web site<\/a>. \u201cI am delighted that the club has entrusted me with this challenging task. One of Union\u2019s strengths has always been, and remains, the ability to pull together in such situations. And, of course, I am convinced that we will secure the crucial points with the team.\u201d<\/p>\nMore to come….<\/p>\n
Union Berlin\u2019s statement on coaching change<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have had a hugely disappointing second half of the season so far and will not allow ourselves to be blinded by our league position,\u201d said Union\u2019s director of men\u2019s professional football, Horst Heldt, on the decision. \u201cOur situation remains precarious and we urgently need points to secure our place in the league. Two wins from fourteen matches since the winter break and the performances shown in recent weeks do not give us the confidence that we can still turn things around with the current set-up. We have therefore decided to make a fresh start.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI am delighted that Marie Louise Eta has agreed to take on this role on an interim basis before becoming head coach of the women\u2019s professional team in the summer as planned.<\/p>\n
“We would like to thank Steffen Baumgart, Danilo de Souza and Kevin McKenna for their work, to whom we owe our secure survival in the league last season and a good points haul in the first half of this season. We wish them all the best, both professionally and personally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Union Berlin have hired the first female head coach in Bundesliga history, as Marie-Louise Eta takes the reins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,846,3914,4015,3911,3908,897,2404],"class_list":{"0":"post-3980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-bundesliga","10":"tag-eta","11":"tag-managerial-career","12":"tag-marie-louise-eta","13":"tag-steffen-baumgart","14":"tag-union-berlin","15":"tag-werder-bremen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}