Arsenal have confirmed the appointment of Renee Slegers as their everlasting head coach.
Slegers has been in cost on an interim foundation since October following the resignation of Jonas Eidevall.
The Girls’s Tremendous League aspect sit third, seven factors behind leaders Chelsea.
And after a profitable spell, Slegers shall be hoping to kick on and restore the Gunners’ dominance in girls’s soccer.
Talking for the primary time as everlasting supervisor, she mentioned: “I’m very pleased sitting right here now and we collectively made the choice to maneuver ahead like this.
“I’ve simply seen what the gamers have been doing and the way we’ve been connecting with workers and membership and followers as nicely. That’s actually put into my choice to need the job as a result of clearly once I received thrown into it, it was very sudden, it was very sudden, and I used to be right here to serve the membership, however then underneath my interval as an interim, it began rising.
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“You begin to take a look at longer-term issues and also you see the place we had been going as a staff and in addition the reference to the followers.
“I feel I’ve talked about the sport in opposition to Manchester United the place we didn’t get three factors, we get one level, however we carry out very well and the followers are backing us and supporting us. I feel that’s been a essential second for me as nicely to see, okay, there’s one thing we will create right here. There’s one thing optimistic that we will create. It’s been rising throughout these months.
“Clearly, [interim head coach] is a job that I’ve by no means finished earlier than, so it’s attention-grabbing to see the way you tackle a job like that when a head coach all of a sudden leaves.
“I feel the following day we had the sport in opposition to Valerenga so we needed to get going immediately. So it’s been quite a lot of learnings for me, nevertheless it has been filled with enjoyment. [I’ve tired] to create a light-weight environment the place enjoyment, togetherness is a vital to attempt to empower gamers, workers, and it’s been attention-grabbing. I’ve loved my time within the interim position.”
