Helena Costa - First female manager?

[Mike Oxlong]

Can you imagine the one week in four when she'd be on the blob.

She'd make the famous Alex Ferguson "Hairdryer" seem like a cosy chat over tea and muffins.

[Mack]

They've replaced her with another lady.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2673302/Clermont-Foot-replace-Helena-Costa-woman-former-France-captain-Corinne-Diacre-signs-two-season-deal.html

[ozleicester]

There is no reason that a female cannot manage successfully at the highest level it will happen.

[Jon the Hat]

She showed her naivity from the start by accepting the job without sorting her conditions in the first place. The idea is just a liberal dream. Yes. if someone got the chance to prove good enough, the best of luck to them, but that chance is remote.

Women just aren't likely to have the background. Dealing with all the complexities of a mens professional football team is daunting.

And for all that you might acquire some of the skills necessary, it would be extraordinary for a woman to learn enough to manage successfully. You never say never but how many clubs would be willing to take such an unnecessary risk?

Women can acquire the skills and experience necessary to run accountancies, schools, hospitals and so on. But mens professional football teams? How would they do it?

Given that plenty of male coaches never played professionally, I would say just as easily as say, Jose Mourinho. He has done ok no?

Clearly there are many more men who have the experience and knowledge, but there is absolutley no difference from saying you cant manage without playing professionally - it is wrong.

[GingerrrFox]

A female manager will never get the chance to be successful in professional football. Having worked closely in a footballing team environment it's like no other "work place". The banter is highly sexual in regards to women, the squad environment is very laddish and without wanting to sound rude the majority of players aren't the most intelligent or indeed socially developed, football is all they have ever known. People talk about Andy Gray and Richard Keys for sexism but what they were sacked for is tame compared to most of what goes on.