Sonia Bompastor becomes 1st female manager of Lyon’s women’s team

Sonia Bompastor becomes 1st female manager of Lyon’s women’s team

Sonia Bompastor becomes 1st female manager of Lyon’s women’s team

French Women’s Champion Lyon name Bompaster as First Female Coach.

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Europe’s most successful women’s soccer team has hired a woman as its coach for the first time in history with Lyon’s appointment of Sonia Bompastor to replace Jean-Luc Vasseur.

The seven-time European champion parted ways with Vasseur after the team recently was knocked out of the Women’s Champions League at the quarter-final stage.

French Women’s Champion Lyon name Bompaster as First Female Coach.

Lyon had won five consecutive Champions League titles but was eliminated by French rival Paris Saint-Germain this season. The 14-time French champions also trail PSG in the domestic league by one point.

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More About Sonia Bompastor

Bompastor was a midfielder, preferably on the left side; she also played left back. Bompastor was a two-time winner of the National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) Female Player of the Year, and following a move to the Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) league in the United States, earned Player of the Month and All-Star honors.

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