"I remember applauding it when it was presented in 2021. The knockout rounds were always great, but the group stage had become heavy. Now it's very entertaining. UEFA deserves credit."
I think these are key moments. It is easy to minimise them and say 'she is just a coach like everybody else and that is how we have to treat her as colleagues'. But in the end it is something special. It opens a lot of opportunities to little girls who now play football and think 'I can coach anywhere, make a real career and be successful'. These stories are really important.
Wolfsburg are indisputably in crisis and have gone back to the future to stop themselves teetering over the ledge into the abyss, with a coach who left or was invited to leave nearly 10 years ago returning to the club to prevent the worst coming to pass.