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There is no tokenism in Ingolstadt hiring a female manager, and the German club?s pioneer recognises the power of her presence in the game
Home is indeed where the heart is. On Friday Sabrina Wittmann signed a new deal to stay at FC Ingolstadt, continuing a partnership whose roots go back nearly two decades but which became of wider public interest when the third-tier club appointed her as the first female coach of a German professional football team in summer 2024.
There is no tokenism in the club?s choice, underlined not only by the contract extension but by the 34-year-old?s recent completion of her coaching pro licence, awarded to her just over a month ago. ?I?ll always be the first woman in Germany coaching a professional men?s team,? Wittmann says, ?but I want to be seen as a coach.
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Home is indeed where the heart is. On Friday Sabrina Wittmann signed a new deal to stay at FC Ingolstadt, continuing a partnership whose roots go back nearly two decades but which became of wider public interest when the third-tier club appointed her as the first female coach of a German professional football team in summer 2024.
There is no tokenism in the club?s choice, underlined not only by the contract extension but by the 34-year-old?s recent completion of her coaching pro licence, awarded to her just over a month ago. ?I?ll always be the first woman in Germany coaching a professional men?s team,? Wittmann says, ?but I want to be seen as a coach.
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