Overview
- Eta’s first match in charge Saturday ended in a 2-1 home defeat to Wolfsburg in Berlin.
- With four matches left, Union are 11th and six points above Germany’s 16th-place relegation playoff, with a trip to RB Leipzig on Friday.
- Union Berlin appointed her interim head coach on April 11 after firing Steffen Baumgart, tasking her with seeing out the final five games.
- Club leaders said they have full confidence in her after sexist attacks on social media, and FIFA executive Jill Ellis praised the appointment in a letter.
- Eta’s rise followed years inside the system as a 2010 Women’s Champions League winner with Turbine Potsdam, a youth coach at Werder Bremen and with German youth teams, and later Union’s U19 coach and first-team assistant.