First Pro Female Manager in Men's Football

Mars Bar

Today, Clermont Foot in Ligue 2 announced Helena Costa, 36, as their manager.

She has an impressive list of titles to her name.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/07/helena-costa-clermont-foot-manager

I wish her all the best.

Call Me Jimmy

I scanned over the article and saw Clermont Foot 63 thinking her name was Clermont Foot and her age was 63. Cue a double-take spasm attack until I copped my mistake

Moneymaker

Good to see, best of luck to her.

bad2dabone

I heard their periods attract bears

Zaph

bad2dabone wrote: »

I heard their periods attract bears

I heard this thread attracts stupid posts.

MD1990

Andy Gray & Richard Keys won't be happy. If she does well alot of other clubs might look into a female coach as well.

bad2dabone

Zaph wrote: »

I heard this thread attracts stupid posts.

lighten up.

mike65

But can she do the two finger whistle?

jonnyfingers

This is good to see. I hope she does well.

jonneymendoza

good luck to her

eagle eye

If she does well then all women will start watching football, for this reason alone I hope she fails miserably.

SherlockWatson

eagle eye wrote: »

If she does well then all women will start watching football, for this reason alone I hope she fails miserably.

What?

Crann na Beatha

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Chucky the tree

So that's women and black people we can add to Eagle eyes list of people he dislikes. :pac:

Blatter

Eagle eye in contrarian opinion shocker.

iDave

Well we do have female singers....and female motorists....guess that's just how the wind is blowing these days.

GavRedKing

eagle eye wrote: »

If she does well then all women will start watching football, for this reason alone I hope she fails miserably.

Please dont post in this thread again, that kind of opinion, whether its humour or personal doesnt belong here.

Thanks.

SherlockWatson

In fairness to Eagle Eye, it may have been a somewhat poor joke, I don't think it was serious, just poorly phrased.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

iDave wrote: »

Well we do have female singers....and female motorists....guess that's just how the wind is blowing these days.

The football matches of the future will be played not on a pitch but in space or perhaps on top of a very tall mountain.

GLaDOS

Some questionable attempts at humour in this thread.

Good to see women becoming more involved in the game.

Aenaes

From the article: "It will be a unique experience to be the first professional football team to be managed by a woman France."

Er, what? :pac:

iDave

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

The football matches of the future will be played not on a pitch but in space or perhaps on top of a very tall mountain.

By robots and it will be up to us to build and maintain those robots

Amirani

I'm surprised it's taken so long to be honest. Hopefully things go well for her.

Mars Bar

Really? I'm not!

http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/vassiliou/headlines/news/2014/04/20140430_en.htm

While football is an increasingly popular sport for girls and women, they are still under-represented on a professional basis and as volunteers. It is estimated that only 20-30% of all football coaches are female and 20 out of 52 European sport federations do not have a single woman on their board.

Also a study at Leeds University in 2010

In the UK approximately 75% of all coaches are men and approximately 94% of all coaches are White (Sports Coach UK, 2007). The recent US figures from the NCAA demonstrate that White men occupy 87% of head coaching positions and 52% of such positions in all women’s teams across Divisions I, II and III (Lapchick, 2009). Only 2% of head coaching roles for men’s teams were held by White women and only 0.7% by women of color. For women’s teams, 35% of women’s teams are coached by White women and 5% by women of color (Lapchick, 2009).

Ireland has no UEFA Pro Licenced Female Coaches and the first two were only accepted on to the course this season, Sue Ronan and Eileen Gleeson. I'd say there are less than 10 female coaches completing their Pro Licences on average in each federation across Europe. You need to be doing the Pro or have it already to take up these types of positions.

beggars_bush

Hope it goes well for her.

Al Capwned

Surprising news.
But very good news.

She obviously knows her **** and has a good cv. Best of luck to her!

KH25

Good luck to her. Hopefully she does well and we see more female managers in the game soon.

aodea

Good appointment in terms of PR for the club, Hop[efully the players and fans give her a fair chance and buy into her methods. Sounds like it will be a difficult challenge at that club with a small group of players, and with what i would presume will be a small operating budget. the fact that she had a scouting job for celtic would suggest she has a good eye for a player.

Best of luck to her will keep aneye ou for thier results.

Corholio

Yacouba Sylla of Villa came from there. I can think of a few female players who might have been better than him :pac:

alchemist33

I'll try and track down a clip when I get home, but Alan Brazil on Talksport was hilarious this morning. He clearly thought it was a terrible idea (even saying that female sports presenters frequently got names mixed up -- the irony!) but wouldn't come out and say it. I really hopes she does well now (not that I didn't before).

Oat23

She quit today.

http://www.clermontfoot.com/communique-officiel-1

CSF

Oat23 wrote: »

She quit today.

http://www.clermontfoot.com/communique-officiel-1

Wow. There is a very good movie to be made from that story I'm sure, one that will almost certainly lead to me despairing for my fellow humans even more.

Too Tough To Die

CSF wrote: »

Wow. There is a very good movie to be made from that story I'm sure, one that will almost certainly lead to me despairing for my fellow humans even more.

Relax, it's just a movie.

Al Capwned

More to be told on that story I'd imagine.....
Sorry to read.

losthorizon

eagle eye wrote: »

If she does well then all women will start watching football, for this reason alone I hope she fails miserably.

Only on boards "sokker" forum

jonneymendoza

Oat23 wrote: »

She quit today.

http://www.clermontfoot.com/communique-officiel-1

LOL wasnt she just announced as first female manager like a month ago?

Mars Bar

I hope she comes out with the reason behind it.

greendom

First reports claiming she didn't want to work with the Sporting Director there.

Nuri Sahin

Yup ^

She's confirmed it a little earlier it was disputes with the Sporting Director that made her resign.

P_1

That's a shame.

pickarooney

Sporting Director kept signing players without so much as telling her and wouldn't answer any of her calls or mails. She's well out of there.

http://www.francetvinfo.fr/sports/foot/clermont-recrutait-sans-mon-accord-helena-costa-s-explique-sur-son-depart-du-club_631299.html

KH25

pickarooney wrote: »

Sporting Director kept signing players without so much as telling her and wouldn't answer any of her calls or mails. She's well out of there.

http://www.francetvinfo.fr/sports/foot/clermont-recrutait-sans-mon-accord-helena-costa-s-explique-sur-son-depart-du-club_631299.html

Only right for her to walk in that case.

patmac

Fair play to her she managed to emulate Brian Clough.

Skid X

Clermont Foot have appointed a second female coach - former France captain Corinne Diacre - as a replacement for Helena Costa.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28072212

Hope she lasts longer than Costa. Interesting times at Clermont Foot.

Dirty Dingus McGee

2 female coaches appointed by the one club, when it has never been done before. I don't want to sound sexist but it almost seems like the club is on a crusade which sadly may not give much credibility to the new coach.

jive

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

2 female coaches appointed by the one club, when it has never been done before. I don't want to sound sexist but it almost seems like the club is on a crusade which sadly may not give much credibility to the new coach.

Bet ya a tenner the new female will be around longer than the last

Pro. F

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

2 female coaches appointed by the one club, when it has never been done before. I don't want to sound sexist but it almost seems like the club is on a crusade which sadly may not give much credibility to the new coach.

The club president said this when Helena resigned:
"She's a woman so it could be down to any number of things … it's an astonishing, irrational and incomprehensible decision. She's developed a confidence problem, but I don't know what it was that caused this."

So he seems to be quite sexist, which makes the appointments bizarre.

Al Capwned

A publicity stunt - it does look that way. And if so, it's going to do more harm than good.

https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/the-hairdryer/hiring-two-female-managers-just-publicity-stunt-clermont-085450716.html