This article is
about how a French men’s professional soccer club has hired their first female
coach. Helena Costa will be the first woman to coach a professional club
in France, as well as the first to coach a top or second division team in
any of Europe’s five major leagues. Not only is she a female coach but also she
is coaching one of the top soccer clubs in Europe. I love this because I think
it relates well to a previous post I did about how much of a divide there is
between male and female sports and with that post I was thinking about athletes
and it never crossed my mind about coaches. Most coach’s male or female sports
are male coaches. This woman is making such an impact on the sports industry
and the growth that could and should be made. One statistic the article makes
is that in 1972, women coached more than 90 percent of women’s
college teams; today that figure has dropped to 43 percent. This is crazy
to me because I don’t understand what has changed from then and now that has
caused such a decreases in the number of female coaches? I also think this is
really awesome because the world cup is right around the corner and I’m not
sure if she coaches a team that will be in the world cup or what but the fact
that this huge soccer tournament is coming up and there could soon be females
coaching the greatest soccer teams in the world is so cool to me. a side note
as well is all those soccer boys are super cute so I’m definitely jealous she
gets to work with them.
I'm curious about the drop in women coaches. My first thought is that maybe certain colleges are trying to be more competitive in their women athletics department. And, sadly, they may think there is a need to hire a more 'serious' male coach (my theory, not at all my personal view). But it's great that there's a strong female individual like this who can prove those people wrong now.
ReplyDeleteI always wonder what is percentage of women coaches in the popular sports. As a society we tend to label each sport by a gender and I think it is time this changes.
ReplyDeleteFirst thing that came to mind is if she receives equal pay to her male counter parts.
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