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She is a hero of women’s football: the only female coach who could Jill Ellis holding the World Cup trophy in the air twice in a row. Under her leadership, the USA won the title in 2015 and 2019. In both years, the world association Fifa named the English-born woman with a US passport World Coach of the Year. The 58-year-old belongs to the aristocracy of the football business.
FIFA has now sent the coach from Palmetto Bay, Florida, to Zurich headquarters appointed: From now on, Jill Ellis will work in the newly created position of “Football Director” with coaching legend Arsène Wenger, 75, the “Director of Global Football Promotion”, and will be responsible for “technical areas”. FIFA urgently wants to modernize. For the FIFA job, Ellis is leaving her post as president of San Diego Wave FC, the 2023 US champions.
San Diego is in July serious allegations Raised voices against Ellis: Former employees claim she did nothing to combat toxic working conditions: Five former employees have sued the club and the professional league NWSL, alleging discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination. The club and president deny all allegations, and Ellis has filed a defamation lawsuit.
Critics point to the 156-page investigation report into the major US abuse scandal, in which mass cases of abuse and sexual abuse became known in 2022. Ellis’ name appears 13 times in the report, and her role in this is inglorious: According to this, players told her about abusive coaches in the home clubs, but instead of reacting, Ellis simply didn’t call the women into the team anymore. Poor performance by the top coach: The fact that she is now contributing to the modernization of FIFA is controversial, at least in the USA.
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