Ireland international Aoife Mannion among 17 current or former WSL players signed up to A Licence course aimed at creating more woman coaches
Republic of Ireland defender Aoife Mannion was one of the participants in a Uefa A Licence course run by the English Football Association in December as part of efforts to get more women involved in coaching. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho’s under-16s girls’ squad are put through their paces at the City Football Academy and the net ripples at the end of another slick move.
“We’re trying to address some of the underrepresentation and encourage more women’s coaches into either the men’s or the women’s game. If you look across the WSL, there are more men’s coaches than there are women. Ultimately, we want English head coaches working in the WSL and the Premier League.” This course, which involved 17 current or former WSL players including the division’s all-time record goalscorer Vivianne Miedema, the Chelsea and Sweden goalkeeper Zecira Musovic and the Arsenal midfielder Lia Wälti, started with a residential camp at St George’s Park and has split into geographical groups. Here in Manchester, some of the northwest contingent are working together, and this session is aimed at building the attack.
“I don’t really know yet what element I’d like to home in on after football but I know that I will love, eat, breathe and sleep football. This course has opened my mind to lots of different things. We’ve learned about psychology, the sports science side of things and periodisation in football too, which has been really interesting.”
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