The FAI confirmed on Tuesday night that they would not be renewing the Dutch coach’s contract.
Paul Fennessy AS THE only individual to have achieved World Cup qualification, Vera Pauw is unequivocally the Irish women’s team’s most successful manager ever.
Yet after a World Cup campaign that yielded just one goal from three games, the prevailing tone had shifted. The style of play was also an issue with the association’s hierarchy. Per a report earlier this week from The42′s Gavin Cooney, which explained that “Pauw’s defensive approach is another aspect which the FAI want to evolve”.“We’re a small nation, we don’t have a huge pool of talent, but we’ve got some excellent footballers — the challenge is to bring the best out of them,” former international Karen Duggan wrote in The Irish Times after the defeat to Canada.
The fact that not one Ireland player who was asked openly advocated for Pauw to be awarded a new contract, preferring not to comment one way or another, was telling. Jack Charlton famously frustrated Liam Brady, Eamon Dunphy and many others with an approach that was often perceived by the naysayers as too negative.
It was true going back to the eras of John Giles and Eoin Hand, both of whom encouraged possession football and obviously applies to current coach Stephen Kenny as well. But while Charlton and Trapattoni’s tactics were not popular with everyone, they are two of Ireland’s most successful managers ever. Charlton qualified for three tournaments while Trap is the only Ireland manager to reach the 16-team incarnation of the Euros.
That’s not to say managing the Republic meant any less to them, but there is a natural degree of distance or a remove with which they perceive the job that perhaps renders them more likely to adhere to the pragmatism of an outsider as opposed to being an idealist that has long been immersed in the system.
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