Vera Pauw’s near four-year tenure as Ireland manager is over following a marathon six-hour meeting of the FAI board.
An FAI Board meeting decided Tuesday night that Pauw will not be offered a new contract after the expiry of her current one at the end of this month.
Appointed in September 2019, Vera led the team to their first-ever major tournament – the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 – and a FIFA Women’s World Ranking of 22.
FAI CEO Jonathan Hill commented: “On behalf of the Football Association of Ireland, we would like to thank Vera for her hard work and commitment over the past four years and wish her well for the future.
"In particular, I wish to acknowledge the role she played in leading Ireland to the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 where our women’s team made history and inspired a nation.
“The future is bright for women and girls’ football and our focus now is building upon the work done by Vera and the historic achievements of our women’s team, which we see as a platform to support the next phase of the journey for the team, and more broadly the development of women and girls’ football in this country.”
Directors began arriving at Abbotstown from 3.30pm for their summit but it wasn't until after 10pm that phonecalls were being made to Pauw informing her time was up.
Although the last Tuesday of the month constitutes the fixed date for directors to meet, this one carried extra significance for deciding the fate of a senior football manager.
It was way down the agenda of sequence but the item devoted to analysing the World Cup review presented by Marc Canham consumed the most time.
Player dissent was at the core of what is effectively a sacking, as preliminary talks of extending her deal which ends today began early
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