Exposure to Elite Environments will Grow the Number of Female Coaches
Speaking to the Telegraph Women's Sport podcast, Willie Kirk speaks of the inevitable growth of female coaches across sport.
The increased professionalism of women’s football will lead to more female coaches in the game, according to Leicester manager Willie Kirk.
At the end of the last Women’s Super League season, Kirk was one of seven male managers at the 12 clubs while a RunRepeat report in 2021 found that 72 per cent of head coaches at the top level of women’s football across the world were men. However, Kirk believes this will change now that more women are exposed to elite environments.
“Now that we are getting closer to a generation of players who have been professional full-time, you will get more female coaches falling out of that because they are better educated in the game, because they’ve spent more hours training and more hours playing, they’ve had more experiences with Euros and World Cups and Olympics,” Kirk told the latest episode of The Telegraph Women’s Sport Podcast. “So I do think players nowadays, because of the experiences they have been exposed to, will have learnt more and be able to transfer that across as a coach.
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