Claire Burrows

@NUFC Recruitment Operations Manager⚫️⚪️ | FA Coach Developer🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |@UEFA A & Elite Youth Licence Holder | FA Talent ID L3 |🎗️| Views are my own

[Claire Burrows @cburrows86]

Getting the Certificates through makes it seem so much more real🥲

✅@UEFA A & Elite Youth Licence completed, massive thank you to the tutors & mentors once again👏🏻🙌🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚽️📝

@FAWCoachEd @FAWales

[Claire Burrows @cburrows86]

@UEFA A Licence signed off & completed📝✅

A brilliant course & many new friends made👏🏻👏🏻

Massive thank you to @nicanderson27 @GazOwen_ @g5davies @JamesSRowberry @albickerstaff & all the other mentors for their support throughout the course🙌🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚽️@FAWCoachEd

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Building for the future 💪

From team meetings, gym work and time on the training pitch to an insight into some one-to-one coaching with Park Seung-soo. We take you behind-the-scenes for a day in the life with our Academy.

Watch now on YouTube ⤵️

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

"He’s a massive, massive inspiration to every player that’s here now” 🖤🤍

We’re delighted to announce that Academy graduate, Lewis Miley, has signed a new long-term contract with the club until 2032.

Lewis joined the Academy aged seven and has since progressed through the ranks to become the club’s youngest ever appearance maker, and goalscorer, in the Premier League and UEFA Champions League 💫

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Another switch as Sean Neave is on for his Premier League debut 💪

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[Newcastle United @NUFC]

"It's a great achievement for me and my family but I think it makes you want to get more of it and work even harder to get more."

A special moment for Rory Finneran on Saturday as he made his senior @IrelandFootball debut 👏🇮🇪

[Claire Burrows @cburrows86]

Top work-well done Rory!🙌🏻🖤🤍

[Ireland Football ⚽️🇮🇪 @IrelandFootball]

Another two subs and two more debuts:

Josh Keeley 🔁 Max O’Leary
Rory Finneran 🔁 Jayson Molumby

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[Claire Burrows @cburrows86]

@markfogmsc I was there last night and this was great to see. Massive well done Charlie 🙌🏻🙌🏻

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

🥹📸

[Claire Burrows @cburrows86]

Massive well done to everyone creating these brilliant memories🖤🤍

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Our Under-8s spent a day at the first team training ground with their heroes 🖤🤍

The Young Mags who are joining the club's Under-9s Foundation Phase group next season participated in a number of footballing activities with Bruno and Will Osula before meeting Eddie Howe and the rest of the squad.

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Our Under-14s won the 2025/26 Albert Phelan Cup following a 3-2 extra-time victory against Everton earlier today.

Well in, lads 🏆🙌

[Claire Burrows @cburrows86]

@DeanBarker06 Top work Gaffer🙌🏻

[Claire Burrows @cburrows86]

So proud to be involved in this project and supporting these coaches on their journeys🙌🏻❤️

@Xbox @FootballManager @SkySportsWSL @MollieKmita @rosiekmita

#fm26 #missingmanagers

[Sky Sports WSL @SkySportsWSL]

Meet the next generation of football managers ⚽

Last year, we launched Missing Managers to discover more female managers using Football Manager. Now the selected gamers have begun their journey from playing to coaching in real life.

Watch their story.

#MissingManagers #FM26

[Claire Burrows @cburrows86]

🙌🏻

[VERSUS @vsrsus]

Marie-Louise Eta is a trailblazer. Just became the first-ever woman to manage a men’s game as Head Coach in the history of Europe’s top five leagues. The best version of football is one built on diversity and inclusion. Anyone with an issue is the issue.

[Claire Burrows @cburrows86]

👏 Great to see-if you can see it-you can be it👏

[Bayern & Germany @iMiaSanMia]

FC Bayern Frauen centre-back Magdalena Eriksson reveals that she has been given a role as a scout for the men's team: "Almost exactly a year ago I received an email from someone at the club, I didn't know who it was but apparently it was Bayern Munich's chief scout (Christoph Kresse) who asked if I was interested in starting to work in the scouting department. That's how it has been. I've been learning for six months and growing into the role. I scout for the men's team. I've grown into the role and now that I've become comfortable in it, I've been given the responsibility of taking over the South American market. So now I'm keeping an eye on South America" [@ViaplayFotboll]

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

✍️ We have completed a deal to sign highly-rated Ecuadorian winger Johan Martinez from Independiente del Valle.

He will officially join the club after his 18th birthday in the summer of 2027.

Welcome to Newcastle United, Johan! 🇪🇨

[Ajoje⚽⚖️ @israel_ajoje]

In 2023, a former football agent asked publicly whether Marie-Louise Eta should be allowed inside a men's professional dressing room. She had just been appointed assistant coach at Union Berlin, and someone with a platform decided the most pressing question about her appointment was not her coaching philosophy, not her development record with the youth teams, not what she would bring to the senior setup.

It was whether she belonged in the same room as the players she had been hired to coach.

When a football club hires a head coach, they are looking for someone who understands the game technically, who can manage a dressing room of professional athletes with different personalities, who has spent years developing players and earning trust inside the sport.

Marie-Louise Eta meets every single one of those criteria. She coached Union Berlin's youth teams. She developed players from the ground up. She worked on the senior staff and earned the respect of everyone inside that environment. So when the agent asked his question in 2023, she gave him the only answer it deserved. She went to work.

Early this morning, Union Berlin appointed her interim head coach, making her the first woman in history to hold that position in any of Europe's Big Five leagues. The Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, the Bundesliga. A combined century of top-flight professional football. Before her, the number of women who had held this position before last night was exactly zero.

The question worth asking is not whether she is qualified. The question worth asking is why it took this long.
England banned women from playing football from 1921 to 1971. Germany banned it from 1955 to 1970. You cannot build a coaching career in a sport you are forbidden from playing, and those bans did not simply delay the women's game.

They severed the generational pipeline through which coaching careers are built, and the structural damage compounded quietly inside institutions that had already decided who belonged. Helena Costa was appointed at Clermont in 2014 and resigned before a competitive match, saying she had been treated as a publicity exercise.

Corinne Diacre replaced her and took the club toward promotion. The top flight never called. Sabrina Wittmann became permanent head coach at third-division Ingolstadt in 2024. The Bundesliga stayed closed.

Until Marie-Louise Eta opened it.

She has five games to keep Union Berlin in the Bundesliga. She will be judged on results, and that is exactly as it should be. The moment every trailblazer is working toward is not the announcement. It is the moment the question stops being whether a woman can do this and becomes simply whether she can keep them up.

Her name is Marie-Louise Eta, and she has work to do.

My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Historical decision by Union Berlin as German club appoint Marie-Louise Eta as their head coach until June.

Union lost at Heidenheim, sacked the head coach Steffen Baumgart and put Marie-Louise Eta in charge until the end of the season.

Ets becomes the first female head coach in the history of men’s Bundesliga.

[Claire Burrows @cburrows86]

⚫️⚪️🏆🤩

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Well in, lads!

Another tournament win against European opposition for our U15 team 🏆

Orange Veins Cup victory in Rotterdam, this time beating a Paris Saint-Germain side on penalties in the final 🖤🤍

[Claire Burrows @cburrows86]

⚫️⚪️👏🏻

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Premier League U15 International Tournament Champions 🏆

Our young mags triumphed today in a competition featuring Juventus, Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain.

The lads beat Chelsea in the semi-final and then Manchester City in the final to take the trophy home 💪

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Professional debut ☑️

Well done, Leo! 🙌

[Claire Burrows @cburrows86]

🖤🤍🙌🏻

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

On for his Newcastle United debut 👏

Congratulations, Leo!

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