Historic! A woman on the Union Berlin bench

Union Berlin today confirmed a historic decision in the Bundesliga by appointment Marie-Louise Eta as an assistant to Marco Grote, the internal coach who temporarily fills the vacancy left by Urs Fischer after being dismissed today.

Well, 32 years old, She thus became the first female coach to be part of the technical staff of a men’s team in the entire history of the Bundesliga.

This is the one former professional footballer and spent most of his career under her maiden name, Bagehorn, before getting married in 2014. He played as a midfielder and achieved his greatest success in his first team, the Potsdam Turbine. He played there from 2008 to 2011 and in 2010 he won the Champions League. They also won the Bundesliga in each of those three seasons and two Cups.

Eh He retired in 2018, at the age of 26, after also playing for Hamburg (2011-2012), Cloppenburg (2012-2014) and Werder Bremen (2014-2018). He was international in all lower divisions of the German national team, but never made his senior debut.

He arrived at Union Berlin in July

certainlyand began his career as a coach, in 2019, leading the U-19 (2019-2020), U-15 (2021-2022) and U-17 (2022-2023) women’s teams until last july became the Marco Grote’s assistant at the head of the Union Berlin U-19 men’s team.

Now the two have been promoted to temporarily take the reins of the first team and will try to reverse the serious crisis of results after nine consecutive defeats in the Bundesliga that took them to last place.

With Real Madrid on the horizon

On November 25 they will make their debut against Augsburg An der Alten Försterei at the An der Alten Försterei stadium and Eta will be the first female coach on a bench in the men’s Bundesliga.

Union Berlin, who also lost three games and managed just one draw in the Champions League, The group stage closes on December 12 by hosting Real Madrid. If Grote and Eta stay on the bench, it’s a sign that the tandem is working.