Due to the dismissal of Urs Fischer as coach at Union Berlin, Marie-Louise Eta from Bremen unexpectedly moved up to the coaching bench of the Bundesliga club.
When Marie-Louise Eta passed her A coaching license with the German Football Association (DFB) in the spring – and was the only woman in the course – the dream was born. The former Werder player already knew back then that she wanted to work as a coach in men’s professional football. This dream has now come true faster than hoped.
With the dismissal of coach Urs Fischer at Union Berlin, former Werderan player Marco Grote is now taking over as U19 coach as interim coach – and has his assistant coach Eta at his side.
Eta ended her football career at Werder
Together with ex-Werderan player Marco Grote (left), Marie-Louise Eta is moving up from the U19 to the Bundesliga team.
The 31-year-old from Bremen is now making football history: Eta is the first woman to coach a German Bundesliga team.
Eta only accepted the new job at Union Berlin last July; she had previously trained various U-women’s teams since 2019. At the same time, she and her husband Benjamin built up the women’s soccer team at TuS Schwachhausen. And as a Werder youth coach, she recommended herself to the DFB.
She ended her career as a footballer in 2018 at the age of 26 with 255 games and played for four years in her adopted hometown of Bremen. Eta was already playing in the Bundesliga at the age of 17. From 2008 to 2011 she played for Turbine Potsdam and from 2011 to 2012 for Hamburger SV. Eta then joined BV Cloppenburg from 2012 to 2014 before moving to Werder. The Etas kept their apartment in Bremen even after moving to Union Berlin. The heart lies in the Hanseatic city, but the focus is now on her big coaching dream in the men’s Bundesliga. “Until further notice,” Union announced in its press release, Grote and Eta should sit in the coaching bench.
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