{"id":4458,"date":"2026-04-14T08:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/4458\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T08:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:55:25","slug":"union-berlin-denounce-sexist-attacks-on-marie-louise-eta-after-historic-appointment-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/4458\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Berlin denounce sexist attacks on Marie-Louise Eta after historic appointment | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 min readApr 14, 2026 01:28 AM IST<\/p>\n<p>Union Berlin have condemned sexist online abuse directed at Marie-Louise Eta after she became the first woman to take charge of a Bundesliga team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/sports\/football\/history-marie-louise-eta-union-berlin-bundesliga-1st-female-coach-10632558\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Eta was appointed interim head coach on Saturday<\/a> for the remainder of \u2060the \u200bseason following the dismissal of Steffen Baumgart.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyloading\" data-lazy-type=\"lazyloading-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/track_1x1.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/track_1x1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" style=\"display:none;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>She will oversee the men\u2019s first team through the end of the \u200bcampaign before \u200bmoving to the club\u2019s \u2060women\u2019s side.<br \/>Her appointment, however, has been followed by derogatory and \u200csexist comments on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve noticed it, but I also refuse to read or even just expose myself to that kind of nonsense, because for me, this is \u2060about leadership quality,\u201d \u2060Union director of football Horst Heldt said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have \u2060100 \u200cpercent confidence in Loui (nickname \u200bfor Eta), complete conviction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heldt \u200csaid it was disappointing that the club had to respond to \u200csuch criticism \u200bin 2026, \u200bcalling \u200bthe discourse \u201cinsane\u201d and \u201cembarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Union said they would continue to protect staff \u200bfrom harassment, with Heldt adding \u2060the club would do everything possible to ensure the debate does not \u200ccontinue.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>Union \u2060are 11th in the Bundesliga standings and host relegation-threatened Wolfsburg \u200bon Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 min readApr 14, 2026 01:28 AM IST Union Berlin have condemned sexist online abuse directed at Marie-Louise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,4570,4576,4573,4575,4572,3910,4574,3911,897,4571,4009],"class_list":{"0":"post-4458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-bundesliga-sexist-abuse","10":"tag-bundesliga-standings","11":"tag-football-social-media-harassment","12":"tag-gender-equality-in-sports","13":"tag-german-football-news-2026","14":"tag-horst-heldt","15":"tag-interim-coach-union-berlin","16":"tag-marie-louise-eta","17":"tag-union-berlin","18":"tag-union-berlin-vs-wolfsburg","19":"tag-women-in-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458","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=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}