Union Berlin’s Marie-Louise Eta: ‘I wanted to impress through my work, not because I am a woman’ | Soccer

In April Marie-Louise Eta became the first woman to lead a men’s top-flight team in one of Europe’s big five leagues, stepping in as interim head coach of Union Berlin following the dismissal of Steffen Baumgart. Her job was to keep Union in the Bundesliga and she did just that with two wins, a draw and two losses in her five games. They finished 11th.

It was not the first time the…