January 9 – Monika Staab (pictured centre) has stepped down from her function as technical director of girls’s soccer in Saudi Arabia, bringing her function in constructing the nation’s girls’s staff to an finish.
A veteran of the sport, the German spent three years in Saudi Arabia, first as supervisor of the ladies’s nationwide staff after which as technical director of girls’s soccer on the Saudi Arabian Soccer Federation (SAFF).
“We bid farewell to Monika and thank her for serving to to rework girls’s soccer throughout Saudi Arabia,” stated SAFF vice-president Lamia Bahaian.
“Her imaginative and prescient, ardour and tenacity have impressed us all. There are younger ladies throughout Saudi Arabia now taking part in soccer in any respect ranges because of the work she has accomplished and the influence she’s had. Though her time with SAFF has drawn to a detailed, her legacy will proceed for generations.”
Staab led Saudi Arabia of their first-ever worldwide, a 2-0 victory in opposition to the Seychelles in February 2022. She launched the U-17 and the U-20 girls’s nationwide groups. The Saudi girls entered the FIFA rating and at the moment are getting ready to embark on the qualifying marketing campaign for the 2026 Ladies’s Asian Cup.
Staab beforehand managed Bahrain and Qatar. In Doha, her mission to construct a nationwide staff was unsuccessful. The 2022 World Cup hosts nonetheless don’t have a practical girls’s staff.
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