Arsenal Women manager Jonas Eidevall questions lack of female coaches in football | Football News

Arsenal boss Jonas Eidevall says a lack of female coaches in the sport is a “big problem”, describing it as “the most under-tapped resource in professional football”.

Eidevall’s facet journey to Brighton on Sunday, stay on Sky Sports from 8.30pm, who final month introduced in Jens Scheuer as their new boss as a substitute for Hope Powell.

That left the quantity of golf equipment in the Women’s Super League with female managers at 4 out of 12.

When that was put to Eidevall on Friday at his pre-match press convention and he was requested find out how to attempt to get extra female coaches into the sport and training in the WSL, he mentioned: “I think the question is wrong – it’s not the WSL.

“The downside is that you simply see, in all of the technical employees in all of the skilled golf equipment on the lads’s facet, what number of female technical employees do you have got in the sport?

“It’s unimaginable if you see in all different elements of society. You can have female Prime Ministers, you possibly can have female presidents. But you possibly can’t have a female coach teaching in the Premier League for some motive? Why?

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“I feel it must be essentially the most under-tapped useful resource that’s in skilled football, female coaches. There isn’t any motive why you possibly can’t be female and be a high coach.

“So you’re absolutely right with the numbers, that it’s a big problem that there are not more female coaches, but that’s not the WSL in isolation – that’s the whole game.

“I can not get my head round how that’s potential, that also now nothing occurs, and that persons are very content material that nothing is occurring.”

Eidevall hopeful on striker in January

The Arsenal manager stays hopeful that the membership can add a striker earlier than the top of the January switch window.

When requested a couple of potential acquisition, Eidevall responded: “I hope so.”

“I used the word ‘prolific’ goal scorer [for a January signing] and that is still my plan. A consequence of having Viv [Miedema] and Beth [Mead] injured for the rest of the season is that we have lost a lot of our historical scoring contributions.

“Of course, we will work on methods the place we will discover that internally however my thought remains to be that we have to discover somebody exterior to assist us with that.”

Arsenal have already had a busy month. Sabrina D’Angelo, Victoria Pelova and Kathrine Kuhl have arrived at the club, while Giovana Queiroz returned from her loan spell at Everton.

Discussing the teenage forward, Eidevall said: “Gio is a extremely, actually gifted participant. She could be very explosive and good on the ball. I feel she will be able to harm any defence that she will be able to play in opposition to.

“What she needs to start games for us is to get consistency in training and to build game minutes. That is what we tried to achieve by loaning her to Everton.

“To be fully sincere, I hoped that was going to be the case that when she returned to Arsenal she can be able to apply absolutely and to be a 90 minute participant with that have.

“But because our situation changed and maybe how things were at Everton, that is not the case here now. I see all the potential in Gio but maybe we need to be patient and take good decisions.

“I feel that can require a little bit bit of time and massive dedication from the employees and the participant to get that proper.”

In terms of outgoings, club legend Jordan Nobbs departed from Aston Villa a few weeks ago and, on Wednesday, Mana Iwabuchi joined Tottenham on loan for the remainder of the season.

Discussing the Japan international’s departure, Eidevall added: “Mana wanted to be in an setting when she wanted to play extra and, of course, with a participant like Mana there are rather a lot of golf equipment.

“Then it is not really my business to decide which club we make the transfer to, that is the player’s decision and the club that do that work.”