January 21 – Iceland’s Elisabet Gunnarsdottir has succeeded Yves Serneels as supervisor of the Belgian girls’s nationwide staff with a contract till the 2027 Ladies’s World Cup.
Final week the Belgian FA (RBFA) dismissed Serneels, who certified the Purple Flames for 3 consecutive European Championships throughout his fourteen-year reign, and on Monday the RBFA unveiled Gunnarsdottir as his successor. She will likely be joined by assistant coaches Magnus Palsson and Lenie Onzia.
“Ladies’s soccer is evolving at lightning velocity and Belgium can’t simply sit on the sidelines,” mentioned Peter Willems, CEO of the RBFA. “What’s extra, our ambition is to climb the FIFA rankings over the following few years and make our mark on the world stage. That’s why we need to create a brand new dynamic inside the Purple Flames.
“Elisabet Gunnarsdottir has an incredible observe file, is aware of worldwide soccer and might take our Purple Flames to the following degree together with her expertise. So, I’m actually trying ahead to working together with her.”
Gunnarsdottir managed Swedish topflight membership Kristianstads DFF in addition to the Icelandic U-21 staff. At dwelling with Valur, she gained the home title 4 instances.
“Belgium has taken large steps in recent times for ladies’s soccer and constructed a robust nationwide staff, with each skilled and younger gamers,” mentioned Gunnarsdottir.
She is going to begin her position subsequent month with fixtures in opposition to Spain and Portugal within the Nations League, with the eventual goal of steering Belgium to a primary Ladies’s World Cup in 2027.
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